Ok, ok, it’s a joke, all right!
It’s incredible that one has to say that these days, but then, of course, you can never be too sure what’s going to stay a joke. I mean, one moment Tony Abbott was a joke and the next he was Prime Minister. “Ha,” said the Liberal Party, “the joke’s on you!” Then before you knew it the joke was on them and Prince Phil was a knight.
So, of course, it’s absurd to suggest that Zelensky could offer Alaska when it’s not his to offer. Although President Trump seems to be suggesting that he’ll get the peace deal with Russia by offering some Ukrainian land which does seem to suggest that he might offer Alaska to Zelensky in compensation…
Actually, it’s more likely that he’ll do another great deal and sell Alaska back to the Russians. I can just picture the press conference now:
“We got a really good deal, the best deal. Apparently we bought Alaska off the Russians for $7million in 1867 and I got $25 million for it. That’s a really big profit and no other president has been able to get a deal like that…”
I was going to say something about the Russians having some legitimate claim to Alaska as it once belonged to them but I was afraid that people would think that I’m drawing parallels with Israel and I’ve found it better to ignore the whole situation because it gets too confusing when it’s so easy to slip into anti-semitism when one says anything about the situation. For example:
“I’m appalled that Israel targeted that journalist Anas Al-Sharif.”
“He was leading a Hamas terror cell.”
“Really, what’s your evidence?”
“Well, the IDF killed him.”
“How is that evidence?”
“They wouldn’t have killed him if he wasn’t.”
“But is there any actual evidence?”
“The IDF says that he was.”
“That’s not evidence.”
“Are you calling the IDF liars? That’s anti-semitic!”
But back to President Trump. When I saw this post, I thought that it may have been Trump announcing his removal, but no such luck.
Apparently, if you’re POTUS you’re allowed to not only hurt and kill people but you’re also allowed to put commas in strange places to break up the, flow, or something, of, the sentence. You’re certainly allowed to send innocent people to El Salvador and photoshop tattoos to show that they are a gang member.
Anyway, Donald Trump is sending in the National Guard to Washington DC which he couldn’t do when sightseers were attacking Congress threatening to hang the Vice President because he didn’t have the authority, but now there’s a national emergency with homeless people looking scruffy, he can.
There was an interesting word in something I recently read which was used to describe the way the media are reporting on Trump: “sanewashing”. I presume that it’s rather like “greenwashing” where companies pretend to do things that are environmentally sound but it’s all just spin, except that the media are pretending that Trump has a plan and that his constant changing his position is part of some master strategy… which could be true if you also believe that the toddler screaming and throwing himself on the floor has some long term plan to get his parents to buy him a house in twenty years time. Personally, I suspect he’s more focused on getting what he wants in the next thirty seconds and hasn’t really thought beyond that.
Tariffs – we’ve been told – simply stop the efficiency of the market and protect non-competitive industries, but now, it seems, they can be a brilliant way of achieving something that is rather hard to define because apart from Making America Grate, there doesn’t seem to be a coherent plan to return manufacturing jobs apart from a bastardisation of that phrase from “Field of Dreams”: If I come, they will build it.
Trump is using the Joe Hockey accounting method from a few years ago where he suggested that we didn’t have the money for some things, but he was going to spend the money that we didn’t have on something else when he didn’t spend it on the things that he was a going to cancel. The tariffs are going to return manufacturing to the USA AND bring in billions when people pay them. If more things are being made in the USA, then there’ll be less money in tariffs.
Still, I’m not a stable genius like the President.
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Don’t think there’s any doubt that this raving maniac and his manipulators are totally fucked in the head.The rest of the planet needs to run,screaming for the exits.Who needs this shit?
The pro Putin brigade must be so pleased with Trump’s surrender of Ukrainian territory.
Trump doesn’t even have the policy, ethical or emotional stability of a windsock
On February 21, 2014, a day before the coup, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition, mediated by Germany, Poland, and France, reached an agreement intended to stop the bloodshed and pave the way for a political resolution to the crisis. However, as soon as Yanukovych ordered the withdrawal of law enforcement troops from the centre of Kiev, militants began storming government buildings.
The Euromaidan protesters openly expressed neo-Nazi views. Images of Third Reich intelligence agent Stepan Bandera adorned captured buildings and were raised at rallies.
The Maidan Square protests received overt support and funding from Western countries. The US Embassy alone reportedly provided material support to protester groups amounting to $1 million per day.
Euromaidan activists resorted to the use of force and terrorist tactics, as evidenced by numerous cases of beatings and torture inflicted upon politicians and public figures who spoke out against the coup.
Following the Euromaidan victory, the Kiev regime’s campaign of terror against dissidents became a hallmark. For over a decade, the people of Donbass endured terrorist attacks and indiscriminate strikes from the Ukrainian Armed Forces and neo-Nazi groups.
The rest is history.
The entire events of 2014 are attributable to.the actions and decisions of Viktor Yanukovych.
Yanukovych gained office by committing to closer ties with Western Europe. He committing to seeking membership of the European Union.
Once in office he reneged. It wasn’t that he decided not to seek membership of the EU.
It was that he sought implement the diametrically opposite policy- he decided to join the Russian trade zone.
Yanukovych succumbed to either Putin’s threats, bribes or blackmail.
He clearly underestimated the willingness of Ukrainians to resist again becoming a Russian vassal state or colony.
He was ousted by a series mass public protests (by the way- mass public protests aren’t a coup)
The police and military declined to comply with his directions to shoot civilians and. Yanukovych lost control of the apparatus o of government, although over 100 protesters were killed.
Ultimately Yanukovych was removed from office by a vote of the Ukrainian Rada. It was 328 to zero.
Had Yanukovych maintained his commitment, he would have remained President.
While the west wasn’t simply an innocent bystander/observer, it is demonstrably nonsense to propose millions of members of the public and 328 members of the Rada were all manipulated.
With regard to Donbass, people would be wise to read the United Nations report on the allegations. The campaign of terror claims have been debunked.
Let’s ensure we look at all the facts.