Let's don't leave out Lady Lindsey.

LAMP

Yes, I didn't read the thread yet, but it would seem that he's already removing bombers from U.S. Bases in England. That could be a one-off or the tip of the iceberg.

He's also been bellyaching for years about the U.S. carrying the majority of the burden of the NATO's protective umbrella and he wants everybody else to pony up. Some did and some couldn't.

Much like his attempts to utilize Greenland, removing U.S. bombers from U.S. bases in England sound a lot like assisting Russia's advancement plans without committing actual troops and equipment.

I still don't think anybody is going to make any drastic moves until they see who is left standing after the War of the Midterms in November. Can't say that I blame them. Who wants to get caught flatfooted in that trap holding nothing but the promises of a mentally unstable U.S. President?

The moon is pockmarked with hits from huge asteroids. What's to stop one from hitting a nuclear reactor.

I'm going to assume that CBS didn't find it necessary to drag the man's name through the mud any further. For what reason? The man is dead.

There are so many reported cases nowadays that people are getting the impression that pedophilia among Republican politicians is an epidemic.

If anybody's name should be dragged through the mud it would be the pedophile who is still a member of the House of Representatives. His name is Jim Jordan ~ otherwise called "Gym" Jordan for his former crimes against children.

Somebody tell me why that disgusting creature is still employed on the taxpayer's dime.

LAMP

Yes, I already knew that. I apologize for not being clear.

It was the original joint venture to share world power that I was talking about and also why Trump was so deadset to take the United States out of NATO ~ so the United States would be free of its obligation to help other NATO countries, particularly the Baltic States, who were being attacked by Russia.

It seems like that's the plan that has fallen by the wayside for the reasons I stated above as well as the fact that Trump, who found out the hard way, can't take the United States out of NATO without an act of Congress.

LAMP

I always did think these two would eventually come to loggerheads. It was almost inevitable.

Two egotistical cooks in the same kitchen never works, so to speak.

"Not illegal when the president does it,"

#25 | Posted by truthhurts

Now you sound like Donald Trump.

LAMP @ #23

"threats and minor incursions, to see how NATO and Europe responds"

Wouldn't they be fools if they didn't already know that? What they don't know is if Trump, with all his mental and political problems of late, not to mention Trump's and his family's latest self-serving business enterprises in the area, still has any interest in helping Mr. Putin pursue his own self-serving legacy goals.

By now, the whole world knows that Trump is a compulsive liar and a self-serving backstabber whose only loyalty is to himself. Mr. Putin's hesitance might also mean he's having second thoughts about Trump's prior commitment to have Russia's back in a full scale (think WWIII) attack.

I understand Mr. Putin's position. I wouldn't continue to trust Trump either if I was him.

Trump's bribes are getting smaller. LOL

I also heard that it's illegal to buy votes. Just tack that onto his impeachment trial.

Thanks for getting this thread back on subject.

I doubt if anybody is going to make any drastic moves until the dust settle after the midterms (literally, not figuratively, if you get my drift) and they know who is in or out of power. Trump is already preemptively losing both houses of congress but it's still a crap shoot.

I anticipate dozens of court cases and hundreds of attorneys eyeballing a new Ferrari.

CORKY

It wouldn't surprise me if ONEIRONAUT is also a military 4-F. I've seen it before. Judging only from his posts here, he has the character traits.

CORKY

He's what's known as a contrarian. We've all known a few in our lifetime. I suppose this site is the only social circle he has left that hasn't already kicked him out the door.

The Trump administration is turning over every stone.

Pity the fool if they ever find one. He'll be AI'd drawn and quartered for the sake of the video evidence.

I think ONEIRONAUT would give his other "naut" to be one of Trump's goons.

Age and brain fog takes its toll.

Amirite?

My guess is that Germany and other supporting NATO nations are being forced to pick up the slack that Trump is weaseling out of thanks to his unholy alliance with Vladimir Putin's expansion plans.

Hopefully that will all come to an end when a new Congress with veto override power is seated in January.

Providing, of course, that Trump and his goons fail to gin up an excuse for Trump to declare a National Emergency to derail the midterms.

My other guess is that ONEIRONAUT is rooting for the goons.

HUGH

Working in unison to control both the eastern and western hemisphere has been the Master Plan from the beginning. Of course, the election in 2020 set Trump's participation back a few years. That probably the REAL reason Trump worked so hard to overturn the results.

Now, here he is again, facing the same thing in 2028 . . . another big delay or, most likely, a permanent expulsion from power.

I never thought Vladimir Putin was a stupid man. I'm still surprised that he hitched his legacy wagon to a complete dunderhead like Donald Trump ~ a failure at everything he's ever tried to do.

I'll never understand it.

I'm surprised. Tom Cotton was a snake-in-the-grass enemy of Barack Obama back in the days of the Iranian Nuclear Accords and a strong advocate for the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025. He also took a hefty sum of money under-the-table to do Israel's bidding in the Senate.

In Trump World, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Unless you count that "loyalty is a one-way street" thing.

Reclaiming the former U.S.S.R. states has been a joint Putin/Trump plan since the early days of Trump's grooming to enter politics. Russia has always wanted to get "their man in the White House" and Trump was (and still is) "their man."

Trump's many ongoing anti-NATO attacks should be clear evidence that the Baltic states can expect only perfunctory support from the U.S. President and Russian ally, Donald Trump. At least between now and January 20, 2028.

I have to wonder if that isn't the reason Russia has slipped into overdrive. They can read the U.S. polls, too.

Trump likes to brag about his many accomplishments. If he turns Florida blue that will be his greatest and bestest accomplishment ever.

But I'm not ready to give Trump any credit. Not a single vote has been counted yet. Just a lot of crossed fingers. Getting rid of DeSantis and Trump's influence in one fell swoop would be a real treat.

Weak! Trump, a compulsive liar, will make up anything to dig himself out the hole he's in.

Trump is still bemoaning that he won in 2020. Makes me wonder how long this war will last.

JOHNNY HOTSAUCE

Trump's not doing the Republican candidates any favors by barnstorming the red states advertising his decline in mental cognizance.

If Trump thinks that all the voters need is to see more of him, he's seriously out of touch with reality . . . which I think is part and parcel of Alzheimers, which is sometimes referred to Brain Rot.

JOHNNY HOTSAUCE

"Where are all the GOP congressman on this"

Evidenced by their campaign websites, running for their political lives as in, . . . Trump who?

ZED

You and I rarely disagree on anything but this time I think Trump will come up with (and probably already has) something that won't backfire on him like everything else he's tried. It will be something that can't be used against him in his impeachment trial. Something that can't be proved was one of his hoaxes.

I don't know what it's going to be, but my guess is Stephen Miller has come up with a doozy.

"traitor"

He had a good teacher.