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Posted: Jan 28, 2025 - 11:10am


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Posted: Jan 27, 2025 - 8:27am

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The totally inexplicable thing is why he chooses to make these threats by public tweet. Diplomacy — even when the talk is tough — is best done in private dialogue. 


Edit: I read some details and see that there were exchanges between Trump and Pedro on social media.


Have to remember who is real audience is, see Kurtster. 
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Posted: Jan 27, 2025 - 8:21am

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I find this methodology maddening. Running a country by sending out social media posts while taking a dump. Hit send and everyone runs around with their hair on fire till the next stupid post. 



He might think that the swagger and ludicrous demand as a start to negotiations makes him seem like a tough guy, but all the world (except ⅓ of ‘Merica) see him as a capricious doofus.



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Posted: Jan 27, 2025 - 8:09am

 steeler wrote:


The totally inexplicable thing is why he chooses to make these threats by public tweet. Diplomacy — even when the talk is tough — is best done in private dialogue. 


Edit: I read some details and see that there were exchanges between Trump and Pedro on social media.

I find this methodology maddening. Running a country by sending out social media posts while taking a dump. Hit send and everyone runs around with their hair on fire till the next stupid post. 

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Posted: Jan 26, 2025 - 2:30pm

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The all allies and supporters part is a nice broad brush for him to attack anyone he wants



The totally inexplicable thing is why he chooses to make these threats by public tweet. Diplomacy — even when the talk is tough — is best done in private dialogue. 


Edit: I read some details and see that there were exchanges between Trump and Pedro on social media.
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Posted: Jan 26, 2025 - 1:58pm

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The all allies and supporters part is a nice broad brush for him to attack anyone he wants



You know, the best approach will be for EVERYONE to be the enemy. One person can be ignored, but if three people - I said three people... then it's a movement....
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Posted: Jan 26, 2025 - 12:22pm

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The Donroe Doctrine — hilarious.  Best thing that has happened to Canadian nationalism in a long time.  Good wakeup call for Europe. 

The Panama Canal nonsense will ultimately hurt US business interests throughout Latin America as did the recent unconditional support for ethnic cleansing terrorism and baby killing in the Gaza concentration camp.    Perhaps it does not matter as long as the bipartisan view is that money falls from the skies.  

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Posted: Jan 26, 2025 - 12:03pm

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The all allies and supporters part is a nice broad brush for him to attack anyone he wants

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Posted: Jan 26, 2025 - 11:50am


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Posted: Jan 23, 2025 - 2:42pm

Klingons
Once ridiculed Space Force ready to blast off with Trump
Air Force officials are pushing for interstellar superiority in the name of great power competition
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Posted: Jan 10, 2025 - 11:41am

AEI would print money for the Pentagon if it could
The DC think tank will find any reason to boost the DOD's already out of control budget, this time it's Russia
The American Enterprise Institute has officially entered the competition for which establishment DC think tank can come up with the most tortured argument for increasing America’s already enormous Pentagon budget.

Its angle — presented in a new report written by Elaine McCusker and Fred "Iraq Surge" Kagan — is that a Russian victory in Ukraine will require over $800 billion in additional dollars for the Defense Department, whose budget is already poised to push past $1 trillion per year.

Before addressing the Ukraine conflict directly, it’s worth looking at the security outcomes of high Pentagon spending during this century. As the Costs of War Project at Brown University has found, the full costs of America’s post-9/11 wars exceed $8 trillion. In addition, hundreds of thousands of people have died, millions have been driven from their homes, thousands of U.S. personnel have died in combat, and hundreds of thousands of vets have suffered physical or psychological injuries. And this huge cost in blood and treasure came in conflicts that not only failed to achieve their original objectives but actually left the target nations less stable and helped create conditions that made it easier for terrorist groups like ISIS to form.

Any call for ratcheting up Pentagon spending needs to reckon with this record of abject failure for a military first, “peace through strength” foreign policy. The new AEI report fails to do so.

As for its central thesis — that a Russian victory in Ukraine will require a sharp upsurge in Pentagon spending — neither part of the argument holds up to scrutiny. (...)

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Posted: Jan 8, 2025 - 8:22pm



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Posted: Jan 8, 2025 - 12:03pm

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"Would you or would you not like Canada to become the 51st state of the United States?"

No: 82%
Yes: 13%

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No Among:

NDP: 94%
LPC: 89%
BQ: 88%
GPC: 87%
CPC: 73%
PPC: 57%

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Leger / Dec 9, 2024 / n=1520 / Online
The 13% should be deported to Florida.


trump wants to take a place with a population greater than California and a land area greater than the entire US and give them the senate clout of N. Dakota

he wants tariffs to keep manufacturing jobs out of Canada but also wants Canada to be part of the US so tariffs won't apply and the jobs could stay there 
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Posted: Jan 8, 2025 - 11:22am

"Would you or would you not like Canada to become the 51st state of the United States?"

No: 82%
Yes: 13%

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No Among:

NDP: 94%
LPC: 89%
BQ: 88%
GPC: 87%
CPC: 73%
PPC: 57%

—-
Leger / Dec 9, 2024 / n=1520 / Online
The 13% should be deported to Florida.
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Posted: Jan 7, 2025 - 6:39pm

Nekkid!

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Posted: Jan 7, 2025 - 11:02am

'America First' meets Greenland, Taiwan, and the Panama Canal
With an eye on China’s expanding footprint, Trump aims to recalibrate US strategy across three crucial global choke points
As the incoming Trump administration prepares to take office on January 20, 2025, a recalibration of U.S. foreign policy priorities and broader national strategy goals is already underway. Advocates of realism and restraint welcome Trump’s emphasis on a foreign policy that prioritizes pragmatism and “peace through strength” over ideological moralism, even while liberal internationalists fear the effects of “America First” policy on multilateral alliances.

Both sides recognize, however, a need for a prudent shift from crippling foreign policy misadventures and ideational stagnation to a bold U.S. foreign policy vision in all theaters of potential competition.

Among the constellation of apparent global security hotspots, three seemingly disparate locations — Taiwan, Greenland, and the Panama Canal — have emerged as serious contenders in the geopolitical realignment of interstate competition over resources, trade and shipping routes, and political-military dominance, becoming the recent focus of President-elect Trump’s typically boisterous social media posts over the holidays.

All three, whilst geographically distant, do share a common denominator — China — a so-called “pacing challenge” deemed most intent on dislodging America’s hegemony, supplanting its economic clout, and challenging its military primacy in an increasingly multipolar world. All represent tests for the kind of foreign policy Trump says he wants to pursue, while denying Chinese encroachments in key strategic areas. (...)

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Posted: Jan 4, 2025 - 11:40am

First of its kind tracker cracks open DC's think tank funding
New fun database filters the foreign interests, arms contractors, and US govt funding DC's top 50 orgs
Part of the so-called Washington swamp is the opacity of the funding going to powerful think tanks that provide policymaking expertise to Capitol Hill, to White House staff, and to agencies, including the Pentagon and State Department. It is no secret that the think tanks that have an outsized influence on foreign policy and national security affairs receive grants from the government to conduct studies and research to the tune of millions of dollars a year. Meanwhile, these organizations get tons of funding from the military contractors who stand to benefit from those reports and research in support of American war policy.

Foreign governments, too, are plowing millions into think tanks in hopes to influence the direction of policy their way.

Not only do think tanks generate a lot of paper but their experts write op-eds, they testify before Congress, they are called upon by reporters and producers to give their take on policy and world events — like the wars Washington is currently funding with American money and weapons — all over the information landscape. In short, they help shape perception and manufacture consent. (...)

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Posted: Dec 26, 2024 - 9:58am

Top defense stock traders in Congress in 2024
Data shows these lawmakers traded between $24M and $113M million worth, some while serving on committees making war policy

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Posted: Dec 21, 2024 - 10:52am

Pardoned?

The US wants credit for Assad's ouster
Biden officials are trying to firm up his foreign policy legacy but is anyone buying it?
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Posted: Dec 19, 2024 - 2:02pm

50 Oppressive Governments Supported by the U.S. Government (2020)

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