Trump

[noseall]

Nasty Trump

After the damage done by the American president in Davos - and make no mistake, it was significant, with alliances further ruptured - he has now managed to amplify it with comments that are as disrespectful as they are false.
His words will be a gut punch for the families of the 1,160 non-American coalition soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan.

It will be a gut punch too for the thousands more who were wounded fighting this war, many left without limbs.

And it will be a gut punch to the soldiers of so many nations who stood up to fight alongside American soldiers on the frontlines and for whom not a day will pass without them thinking about their experiences in that war.

 

[Intoxicat]

I think the world is having difficulty coming to terms with the most powerful country on Earth being run by a conceited, self-obssessed, bullying imbecile, who, having established himself on the throne as King of the USA, now wishes to encompass the entire western world within his domain. He has absolutely no self-awareness and is totally immune to shame and embarrassment; his infantile tantrum over not being given the Nobel Peace Prize was utterly cringeworthy, with his petulant letter to the Prime Minister of Norway looking like something written by a spoilt ten-year-old. He has single-handedly stripped the USA of its world status and moral leadership, emboldening Russia and China, simultaneously catapulting the world order into a bleak simulation of Game of Thrones. Future historians (assuming the world survives long enough for there to be any), will look back on his confused and illiterate rants with a shocked sense of disbelief. We will certainly get his wish to be remembered, but not in any way that he would wish for.

 

[MNW67]

I think the world is having difficulty coming to terms with the most powerful country on Earth being run by a conceited, self-obssessed, bullying imbecile, who, having established himself on the throne as King of the USA, now wishes to encompass the entire western world within his domain. He has absolutely no self-awareness and is totally immune to shame and embarrassment; his infantile tantrum over not being given the Nobel Peace Prize was utterly cringeworthy, with his petulant letter to the Prime Minister of Norway looking like something written by a spoilt ten-year-old. He has single-handedly stripped the USA of its world status and moral leadership, emboldening Russia and China, simultaneously catapulting the world order into a bleak simulation of Game of Thrones. Future historians (assuming the world survives long enough for there to be any), will look back on his confused and illiterate rants with a shocked sense of disbelief. We will certainly get his wish to be remembered, but not in any way that he would wish for.

Lovely stuff. I agree with every word!

 

[fillyboy]

I like Melanie Philips take on Davos, quite long so I've just put an excerpt.

https://melaniephillips.substack.co...e&r=8t75h&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

A Caesar in the White House​

The old world order is dead because Western universalists destroyed it​

This was the week when much of the West woke up to the realisation that the old world order was dead. A new one was being born, and they didn’t like it at all. And it’s far from clear that Israel can rest easy either.

The Trump administration came to the World Economic Forum in Davos — the very belly of the liberal universalist beast — to tell the rest of the West that globalisation was dead. It had failed Europe and the United States, harmed their prosperity and growth, and made them dependent upon and even subservient to others, including their enemies.

The world leaders forced to listen to this lecture were still reeling from US President Donald Trump’s threat to take over Greenland and punish countries that objected. At Davos, he retreated from that into a framework deal with NATO’s head Mark Rutte over Arctic security, which sounds long overdue for the defence of the free world.

Remarkably, no less committed a universalist than Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney told forum participants that the game was now up for the global order. Many countries were now concluding that they must develop greater strategic autonomy. “When the rules no longer protect you,” he said, “you must protect yourself”.

You don’t say. Better the sinner who repenteth, etc.? Not quite.

Carney and other liberal leaders lamenting the end of the globalist game are merely acknowledging that Washington will no longer tolerate it. They fail to admit, however, that they have been propping up an international order that promised liberal ideals but delivered the opposite.

These are the leaders who continue to develop economic ties with China, one of the principal threats to freedom and security in the world.

These are the leaders who, for more than four decades, appeased the fanatical Islamic regime in Iran as it exported terrorism and mass murder around the world, pursued the development of nuclear weapons, waged proxy war against Israel and oppressed its own people. Over the past few weeks, as at least 16,500 Iranians were murdered in their attempt to bring the regime down, these world leaders said virtually nothing and did even less.

Even now, France, Spain and Italy are actually blocking the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — the main instrument of the regime’s global aggression — as a terrorist organisation.

The leaders in Davos have continued to allow Russia to launder its ill-gotten money through their capitals and have done little more than wring their hands over Ukraine.

 

[Intoxicat]

Trump thinks he has finally pulled off the deal he was asking for (it's a bit rough, but I wasn't going to take all day over it )

 

[MNW67]

Carney and other liberal leaders lamenting the end of the globalist game are merely acknowledging that Washington will no longer tolerate it.

The USA invented it and has benefitted hugely from it. They are the richest and most powerful country in history.

There is a reason she is called Mad Mel.

 

[MNW67]

One of the saddest parts of Trump's speech was when he talked about his new Trump class battleships. An utterly pointless idea. They aren't actually battleships at all. They are just much bigger guided missile destroyers. It is much better to have three of those smaller ships than one massive penis substitute.

 

[noseall]

I see the Trump hornsmokers have run to the hills, since his latest nasty attack on our British troops. Not a single comment. Their silence is deafening.

 

[fillyboy]

I see the Trump hornsmokers have run to the hills, since his latest nasty attack on our British troops. Not a single comment. Their silence is deafening.

His shameful attempts at rewriting history go down great with the lack-wit MAGA and filly et al. The fact that we have people over here, cheering him on, leads me to believe sometimes, that our MAGA are just that bit more 'special'.

Can you show me a post where somebody has applauded his comments on our troops in Afghanistan, or are you a liar as per usual.

I note you're too cowardly to state what I have in my mouth.

 

[pete01]

I called him a cheeky git, but im not a horn smoker

 

[noseall]

.deflective waffle

"...look a squirrel..."

 

[fillyboy]

"...look a squirrel..."

Oh look, a little yellow coward.

 

[MNW67]

I called him a cheeky git, but im not a horn smoker

Wash your mouth out.

 

[charliegolf]

The USA invented it and has benefitted hugely from it. They are the richest and most powerful country in history.

There is a reason she is called Mad Mel.

She managed to crowbar some Zionist rhetoric in there too. Quelle surprise!

 

[MNW67]

One of the saddest parts of Trump's speech was when he talked about his new Trump class battleships. An utterly pointless idea. They aren't actually battleships at all. They are just much bigger guided missile destroyers. It is much better to have three of those smaller ships than one massive penis substitute.

Somebody in the know agrees with my assessment.

Lethality Opportunity Cost​

The US Navy’s problem is not a lack of imagination; it is a lack of time. It needs more lethality, quickly and affordably. A multi-mission 35,000-ton ship does not obviously meet that requirement. Even if the Trump class eventually performs as advertised, the opportunity cost is enormous. Every dollar spent on a battleship is a dollar not spent on missiles, submarines, destroyers, or autonomous systems. In an era of constrained budgets and intense competition, those tradeoffs matter.

The return of the battleship, whether real or rhetorical, is making headlines, but for the wrong reasons. In the unforgiving arithmetic of naval force structure, spectacle matters far less than timely delivery of usable combat power. While the program may have a chance of making it through the congressional appropriations process under this administration, the smart money would be on it being cancelled as soon as Trump is out of office, leaving the Trump class as a pointless white elephant at the significant opportunity cost of years and dollars taken away from the path toward a balanced and lethal American fleet. Build destroyers instead.

https://www.fpri.org/article/2026/01/the-trump-class-battleship-spectacle-wins-out-over-combat-power/