Pretty sure Bessant would raise big objections to that. That is a man who will not go without his Châteauneuf-du-Pape
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https://x.com/i/status/2013701979084664877
Fucking hell , hes a complete idiot.
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https://x.com/Archer83Able/status/2013713945115128062
(he has not settled a single war).
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It’s reported that Canada’s armed forces is war gaming a potential assymetric defence against a US invasion.
IEDs, sniping, guerilla etc.
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I don’t know why they don’t ask him to name the wars he has settled. He will fail, miserably, not only because he hasn’t settled any wars, but also because he has little grasp of the world and the places therein.
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The unfamous Rwanda/Armenia conflict to name but one.
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I am still shaking my head over Newsom’s extremely short sighted and US centred statement today. It’s as if he is not aware of the Russian invasion.
https://x.com/jakluge/status/2013683526948851982
Newsom should know, almost every single soul in EUR outside our own MAGA wants to tell the US to go fuck themselves. We just cannot because of the fucking war that the US is exploiting against us, siding with Russia.
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Saturn/Jupiter intergalactic conflict…
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https://x.com/SykesCharlie/status/2013654932251906170
Honestly, that civil war is needed fairly soon (thought I would never say those words).
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The most craven and spineless group of politicians in world history, are Americans.
No threat to life and limb, just money and fame. Yet…
https://x.com/monacharen/status/2013354317336490068
(because it is rather different if someone is holding your family hostage or threaten you with execution).
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these eight wars…even using Trumps logic;
Gaza
Venezuela
drugs/imigration maybe is one hes claiming
afganistan from his first term?
what are the other 4
regardless of the status of what they really are, what are the 8 ‘things’ hes claiming credit for?
Whats this stuff i’ve pop up on X about the Ukrainian feeding fake intel to the US that ended up in the hands of the Russians!
Any truth in the story?
The only one he actually deserves a modicum of credit for, is the one you did not mention. Armenia vs Azerbadjan. He was useful there as a mediator (not him, but the US).
The others are Iran vs Israel (lol, didn’t take mediation, both sides wanted to quit) and India vs Pakistan (needed mediation, but neither side wanted war). Cambodia vs Thailand. Fighting has reblossomed.
Israel vs Hamas (yeah, about that Gaza thing).
Congo vs Rwanda (not really).
The only war he has tried to “stop” where sides actually want to wage actual war (Russia), he is unable to solve, since he refuses to use a stick on Russia.
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I don’t know but doubt it.
I have not come across this story, using my regular many sources, so doubt this very strongly.
He could maybe direct that to the Senate Democratic caucus.
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https://x.com/Daractenus/status/2013654969157587243
Putin will sign on too.
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Is it the Russian Empire though or the Russian Union? There’s no doubt from his interminable essays that Putin believes the current modern borders of Ukraine were an aberration and encompass historical Russian land. And a lot of the population of eastern Ukraine and Crimea is Russian-speaking. He’s railed against this in bellicose terms, citing Peter the Great and spoken of Ukraine, Belarus and bits of modern Georgia being restored as a unified nation. But these kind of rantings, especially now, need to be seen in the context of efforts to initimidate Kyiv, Europe and the west into accepting Russian terms for a ceasefire. If Russia annexes the Donbas it will restore the Russian empire as it was under Catherine the Great. That the war has been hugely more taxing then he expected should have taught this arch pragmatist that those limits are enough. Certainly, he has told Trump and Zelensky exactly what Russia expects from a Nato-free Ukraine and it doesn’t encompass territory beyond the Donbas. The few semi-sensible officials in Trump’s administration like Tulsi Gabbard and even the Council on Foreign Relations have all doubted publicly that Putin has territorial designs on other European nations. During peace talks it seems Trump has signalled to Putin that the US intends to abandon its European front in favour of dominating the entire western hemisphere. He sees Nato as an outdated burden and Europe can look after itself from now on. To warmongers this is a sign that Europe needs new unipolar deterrence, aka massive military spending. Other analysts believe it removes the US threat to Russia’s ambitions for a powerful economic eurasian trading route and makes further territorial ambitions unlikely. Certainly Russia’s economic interests lie not in Europe but in the Belt and Road Initiative with China, cementing influence in far eastern coastal nations and building with the Global South. If a ceasefire treaty can be agreed it will allow Europe to breathe again but Putin is probably very happy to have a Europe fearful of Russian aggresion. It keeps a watchful Europe anxious to maintain peace and stability while Russia pursues it’s economic recovery. We’ll see.
I have seen countless MAGA accounts, everything from fools to actual conservative academics and intellectuals, post versions of this the last 2 days:
https://x.com/NickAdamsinUSA/status/2013485146872115586
The disconnect and absurdity is so, so strong.
The argument they have is the following: “Because you don’t actively join the war in Ukraine, which you claim is imperrative to your security; every opposition to us gaining control of Greenland is just cowardice and low hanging performative fruit”.
They think only in terms of power.