Concur with all above.

And even the mafia, real and fictional, had some standards to maintain, like the assassins whacking real life Tommy DeSimone (played by Joe Pesci in Goodfellas) for his infamias.

The tumorous Trumpf junta has no standards; they are just a bottomless pit of depravity beneath the ninth circle of Dante's Inferno.

Through this rambling unprofessional screed, Dummkopf Trumpf has telegraphed and codified what many of us already know: Europe and Canada are on their own against Russia in 2026, the US won't be helping Taiwan in the near future, and Trumpf is seeking allies in Latin and South America who are rightwing authoritarians, like Libertarian loser Javier Milei in Argentina or reactionary Nayib Armando Bukele of El Salvador.

Trumpf failed at rescuing fellow fascist rain forest-destroying Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil from prison. Shucks.

*** US Secretary of War Crimes Delivers Another Boring, Unimaginative Speech ***

The most underqualified Secretary of Defense in US history, a pro-Kremlin alcoholic who was accused of paying $50,000 to a woman he sexually assaulted in 2017, launched a full-throated attack on post-Cold War US foreign policy, castigating former presidents and generals by name while declaring the age of American "utopian idealism" over.

US Secretary of War Crimes Pete "Hic!" Hegseth, mired in an idiotic OPSEC imbroglio of his own making ("Signalgate") and accused of ordering the murder of defenseless alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea, bleated talking points to a bored audience at the annual Reagan Defense Forum. The heavily-tattooed misogynist outlined a new military focus on the Western Hemisphere, demanded allies fend for themselves, and emphasized taking a more conciliatory approach to China's armed forces. In essence this lickspittle conceded that Dummkopf Trumpf will let Beijing eclipse US military hegemony in the Pacific, therefore potentially abandoning allies like Taiwan, South Korea, or Japan.

The former second-rate weekend TV tumor for Faux News mindlessly parroted the scrambled ideas released in the new National Security Strategy.

"Out with idealistic utopianism," Hegseth brayed. "In with hard-nosed realism."

I bet there are Japanese military strategists or lawmakers in the Diet thinking about developing a nuclear deterrent to China after reading this screed which abandons Tokyo to Beijing or Pyongyang.

The ROKs, who are a top-ten armaments producer in the world, have powerful non-nuke explosives for their rockets, but they may want the threat of radiological spoilage in China or North Korea to counter both Pyongyang and Beijing.

I am not certain if Taiwan can develop a nuclear weapon as fast as Japan or South Korea.

Maybe I'll do some website research and an AI query after dinner.

Dummkopf Trumpf did this. He probably set off a new nuclear arms race in Asia.

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