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What I’m talking about is Trump’s efforts to agree a ceasefire. He’s been blackmailing Zelenskyy and offering Putin whatever he want’s. If Trump wasn’...
March 16, 2025 at 08:37
Where do you live? Under a stone? I may be wrong, it’s difficult to read with how unpredictable Trump is. But he’s seems to be so crazy that he will l...
March 16, 2025 at 08:29
Very interesting. I would add the observation that in large populations with a small political elite(which seems unavoidable in the modern world). Cer...
March 16, 2025 at 08:04
You’ve just parroted Trump talking points. It’s all in his head, he’s been saying the same thing for 40 years. It was wrong then and it’s wrong now. A...
March 16, 2025 at 07:50
Looks like the U.S. is one step closer to civil war. The Democrats caved, but is it because they are washing their hands of Trump, so he can crash and...
March 15, 2025 at 06:56
The Europeans advised Zelenskyy following the pile on in the Oval Office. They helped him draft the letter which helped mend the relationship between ...
March 14, 2025 at 07:11
European leaders and negotiators played a big role in shaping the Ukraine approach, behind the scenes.
March 14, 2025 at 06:18
It’s 4D chess.
March 13, 2025 at 16:38
Yes, the signs were there. But what I think is a surprise is that they were now to become supporters of Putin. They were voting to make America great ...
March 13, 2025 at 07:55
Yes, Putin will play the idiot Trump like a fiddle. He knows that come the next election and Trump leaves office, that the U.S. might be back to busin...
March 12, 2025 at 10:45
No I don’t deny it, but getting into bed with Russia doesn’t reduce overstretch. It increases it. If the U.S. really doesn’t want overstretch, all she...
March 12, 2025 at 07:28
Thanks for laying it out ssu, I don’t really have the time to go through all this with neomac right now. It certainly does seem that the U.S. has got ...
March 11, 2025 at 18:31
That article is behind a paywall, I don’t need to read it though. The Reform party is Nigel Farage, this is what Musk doesn’t understand. Just like th...
March 11, 2025 at 14:10
Broadcast on Russian TV last night. Solovyov saying that there is no need for a ceasefire now, JD Vance is their man. https://youtu.be/5QyOiYAkWPM?fea...
March 11, 2025 at 08:15
Insane it is then. Will this mean all the U.S. military bases in Europe being put under wraps. We’ll Tesla stock is tanking, he’ll have to keep his St...
March 11, 2025 at 07:23
Trump would blackmail the Ukrainians into capitulation. All Trump needs to do is say if Russia doesn’t compromise, U.S. support for Ukraine would be d...
March 10, 2025 at 16:52
Yes, but Ukraine’s autonomy has effectively been given away before the negotiations have begun. And Russia will not soften her line that Ukraine must ...
March 10, 2025 at 15:09
Yes, it’s a long way off for Europe, but the forces against this outcome have taken a knock. This is not about enthusiasms for outcomes, but rather lo...
March 10, 2025 at 15:04
There will be many people who think Putin can be trusted, but the only person who can answer the question is Putin. All we can do is judge him from hi...
March 10, 2025 at 14:47
Already Reform in the U.K. is split and in disarray. Established rightwing political commentators, such as Andrew Neil are washing their hands of Trum...
March 08, 2025 at 10:28
These are details, Putin is still at the top of the pyramid. There is nothing else to be said. Unless you would like to demonstrate that Putin can be ...
March 08, 2025 at 10:03
And Putin wouldn’t invade if an agreement had been signed? It doesn’t matter what argument is put forward, everything goes back to Putin. Someone who ...
March 08, 2025 at 08:16
A deal with Putin, yeah right.
March 08, 2025 at 07:20
SSU has covered this. The small Baltic states and Poland would by now have been invaded, subjected to brutal abuse and assimilated into Russia by forc...
March 07, 2025 at 21:41
Correct, but Europe must re-arm quickly, this is why many people are shouting about the Russian threat. It takes a lot of effort to overcome the inert...
March 07, 2025 at 06:47
It’s a myth that “we” said we wouldn’t expand NATO to the east. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/did-nato-promise-not-to-enlarge-gorbachev-says-no/ ...
March 06, 2025 at 21:50
Canada might not be a good example, here as she may soon be annexed by an autocrat. She missed her chance to join USSR. Anyway that moves away from th...
March 06, 2025 at 17:22
Yes, I agree, apart from the bit where we have managed our relations with Russia badly. But I return to my initial point that the root of the problem ...
March 06, 2025 at 12:13
I agree that the U.S. over reacted to the communist threat following WW2. But this wasn’t the root of the problem, it was a symptom. The root lies in ...
March 06, 2025 at 07:28
They need to check out Fort Knox quick. To check if there is any gold left.
March 05, 2025 at 14:32
If Trump is a genius and is playing a blinder in ending this war. We will see him turn the screw big time on Putin in the coming days. Perhaps after Z...
March 05, 2025 at 14:28
I agree, although he hasn’t dismantled the democracy which elected him as yet. So his status is currently uncertain.
March 05, 2025 at 12:18
Yes, paradoxically I think many Europeans do welcome it. That Europe is taking care of her own security. While regretting the cause of it and the poli...
March 05, 2025 at 12:16
It’s not being that widely reported on. https://x.com/BarbMcQuade/status/1896943473120407962
March 04, 2025 at 16:42
To become Rocket Man. Or is it Icarus. I’ve just heard an interview with general Sir Richard Sherriff (ex chief of the European arm of NATO). Who has ...
March 04, 2025 at 13:21
Things are moving fast.. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_673 Trump has just banned all protest on college campuses,...
March 04, 2025 at 11:44
Yes, makes sense. There was a similar thing happening in the U.K. with the Tory party. Particularly Boris Johnson, who pushed the Brexit vote over the...
March 02, 2025 at 16:57
There is a dichotomy here, nationalism pulls together for the fight in a war. If the libertarians want to create division in Europe to weaken the EU. ...
March 02, 2025 at 16:47
Now Norway is going to enable access to her €1.5trillion sovereign fund for aid to Ukraine. I wonder if the Nobel prize representatives are following ...
March 02, 2025 at 16:37
The Trump administration has fxcked up big time. By cutting USAID they have fallen at the first hurdle. The biggest threat from China over the last fe...
March 02, 2025 at 10:13
It’s a distopian Oligarchian nightmare which would usher in our demise due to climate change.
March 02, 2025 at 08:36
It might be quite simple really. That Trump wants to be a dictator like Trump, Xi, Kim Jong-un. That his administration is following the Orbanisation ...
March 01, 2025 at 16:53
Yes, maybe. The way I read it is that Putin has something disgusting on Trump and when he realised that he was going to have to push harder against Pu...
March 01, 2025 at 16:49
I’m not going to labour the point, but is Putin so strong that he has ended up dug in, in eastern Ukraine. With Ukraine troops picking off his troops....
March 01, 2025 at 15:04
This is the bit where you tell me why the President during a heated row in the Oval Office in front of the worlds media, starts rambling on about dodg...
March 01, 2025 at 09:28
Yes the pragmatic solution is a ceasefire with the line drawn where the current frontline lies. With a new iron curtain erected. But we are a long way...
March 01, 2025 at 08:52
Yes, I agree, I suspect there is Kompromat on Trump which is being leveraged to pull his strings. Indeed there did seem to be a tell (when responding ...
March 01, 2025 at 08:35
As I predicted.
February 28, 2025 at 22:27
There never was a deal. Putin had already pulled back from negotiations once the rare earth narrative was adopted. It’s all just Trump chaos.
February 28, 2025 at 22:23
Ouch, did I poke a bear, or something? Look, I’m well aware of the points you raise. But I wasn’t addressing them, I was saying what the big story is,...
February 28, 2025 at 07:00