for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS,

So…9? Is 9 the number you were looking for? Maybe 10? I assume this is based on him starting a war and bumbling it back out of a war between the time this was sent and received.

Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China,

Yeah, if only there was some sort of military force treaty organization that covered the North Atlantic so friends could help friends.

I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding,

Comedic line of the decade

The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.

lol, sorry, no, this is the comedic line of the decade.

The administration is still in violation of the law releasing the Epstein files.

They’ve been doing this since 2019 or so with communications infrastructure. The problem was where else were companies and governments going to get full tech stacks? And what company is going to tear out $20 billion in equipment and throw it away? Solar panels, especially, were a tough one to replace cheaply.

So, basically a 5-year preliminary period to warn large telcos of a coming phase out era that will probably also last 3-5 years. So the lifetime of most infrastructure-level equipment and then some.

From the depths, an ocean of emotions have just emerged.

It started on Wall Street, but they simply picked up on the trend because it’s an industry of people looking at trends and patterns all day to place bets.

He chickens out on all sorts of policy things when he doesn’t delegate it to ghouls that feed on the cruelty. He keeps acting like he’s going to be tough on the EU, and then folds.

However, to your point, wealthy capitalists are the ones that convinced him to invade in the first place. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/15/ronald-lauder-billionaire-donor-donald-trump-ukraine-greenland https://www.forbes.com/sites/martinadilicosa/2026/01/09/these-billionaires-bet-big-on-greenland-after-trump-took-interest/

And IIRC one of those Peter Thiel Network State charter city crypto fiefdoms as well was sniffing around Greenland.

A bully always beats on his friends before ever considering a real challenger.

FACT: TACO

Do whatever you want, France. Trump will chicken out. Nothing else is as for sure other than that.

They do, but people also do a lot of bank transfers. Which is essentially a cash payment. But if you don’t have a local bank account and app, or the Wise app, then credit cards work just fine most places.

Albania is the only place I’ve seen that has zero trust in anything but cash, but that’s because their socialist era was so restrictive that after that regime fell, people were wholly unable to understand how basic things like banks or economics works. A single pyramid scheme basically crashed the government in 1996-97. It’s a fascinating story about how much learning a society has to do to change from an oppressive regime to something else.

I also thought this headline happened like 3 months ago when all this stupid stuff started. I can’t find anything other than other “news” outlets obviously just copying this headline.

Yep - pre-coffee comments are never ideal. Learn from my fail.

Sorry, I mean patriotism and my brain is stupid about words.

Sorry, I’m an idiot - I meant patriotism. My facepalm is a full body move.

I’ll get downvoted for this, but use Claude for Linux troubleshooting, not ChatGPT. It’s much better at both Linux and PC troubleshooting. Also, are you sure that your refurbishments are compatible with the board and remaining components? Might be worth trying to do a Windows 10 install (don’t actually install, just go through the steps) just to see if you get a GUI from that process.

Also, check and take this to LinuxMintForums.com as that’s more specialized. But try and get more info before you go over there. They’ll want full details.

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I’m sure you’re correct. And yes, these are trivial amounts for him – and not exactly insane amounts if you simply owned a house in LA and sold it to flip it into EU citizenship. IMO the key point is that this is a 4-year process that I bet he started in mid-2021. Time is something he can’t buy.

The US has its own citizenship by investment schemes as well, well before the “Gold Card” or whatever scam that is. Usually the base investment levels on these things are $100K-$300K and then you’ll be on the hook for taxes and admin fees and a lawyer as well. It’s why so many UK cits bought property in Portugal or Greece as they had lower levels for investment to count.

He could do it for under $500K. He probably started the talent investor visa process during the 45 administration, as they take about 4 years to get approved.

Super easy for him to spin up some production company that makes 2 art movies a year, hire 3 French people he knows on 5-year contracts, and he’s basically at the minimum requirements. If he’s bought and invested more than a certain amount in a home as well, that also counts towards citizenship.

It’s a few things. For starters, that Nigeria has been a failed state teetering on the edge of Somalia status for 5+ years. Remember their Twitter ban in 2021? It was entirely because the government couldn’t control shit and needed money because they have nothing else going on. They haven’t had a stable power grid in a generation. Seriously. It’s a country in name only and the central government has exceedingly little power since so much oil money goes to private people before going to the government for taxes.

What’s going on for Trump? Nigeria LOVES America. Always has. And Christian Nigerians love a good strong man, regardless of the racism. It’s a total contradiction and makes no sense. Nigeria also, yes, has oil. It’s a mess to extract is the problem, but Trump is locking up OPEC members. Go down the list - the Emirates, Venezuela, Nigeria… What’s he said about DRC? That he solved their war? Yep. He thinks he can corner their market.

Ironic that Trump doesn’t want to give all those “poor persecuted Christians” visas anymore. But he’ll bomb a random village to defend them? Brilliant.

Came here to say the same thing.

How about I feign surprise? Does that work, EU?

This is a bit of a catch-22, isn’t it? And I’m saying this as someone that grew up poor and lived in communities where people lived on $1 a day. This isn’t the solution it thinks it is.

Poverty rates in urban areas mean that a lot of people who are food insecure live in places distantly removed from where food is grown. Even in Brazil. The crops spoken of here are popular specifically because they travel well, store well, are cheap to mill, and common commodities so a bag of rice from Thailand can go to Brazil or the US or Nigeria or France or India and everyone knows what to expect. But other than high value crops like flowers, cocoa or coffee, it’s exceedingly rare that large numbers of farmers grow crops that they don’t consume even a bit themselves or sell locally. Post-harvest waste products for most staple grains are their own market, and plenty of broken rice makes it to the market for sale as well. I’m not saying this is a perfect or good system, just that it hits a lot of very basic human desires that do, in fact, feed most people on earth already.

A right to food system is nice, but it’s expensive, especially as populations continue to urbanize. Many countries subsidize agriculture, focused on smallholder farming, because it’s a cheap way to get votes and funnel things like fertilizer contracts to your friends.

If this was such a good idea, the logical conclusion is to just make exports of edible products illegal and only allow imports. Flood your own markets with food that would be so cheap no one would bother farming it because the inputs alone would run you at a huge loss.

Of course not! That’s crazy.

If all the regional neighbors also got dragged in then that would mean that when the US went into Iraq that Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia…

Oh, never mind.