…Says the guy who avoided the Vietnamese front line

I’m not shocked that German outlets are still in denial about this

Lmfao it’s so fucking comical.

• Carney certainly couldn’t give less of a shit; nor should he
• nobody and no country worth a damn anymore give a shit about orangeboi’s wish.com UN knockoff, or think that it will have any meaningful - let alone positive - impact. Not to mention, the group is such a hilariously obvious shakedown attempt.

This is 10/10 “I don’t want to come to your party” “WELL YOU CAN’T COME BECAUSE I’M UNINVITING YOU >:(“. Fucking kindergarten-grade rhetoric. What a time to be alive.

What I mean is that Germany should have taken this fucking seriously at some point between 2014 and now. Because to many people - including myself - it looks like they’re doing essentially fuck-all, and are being so punctiliously bureaucratic that they’re going to procedure themselves into an early fucking grave. The willful ignorance is absolutely astounding.

There are still a lot of competent people who continue to let themselves be used by the regime, particularly in the military.

• it is unfortunately a fake cover
• i would LOVE if it was real
• i do not expect orangeboi to understand that it is fake
• i expect orangeboi et al will get big mad over it

I think his open acknowledgment of the until-now taboo points that the “rules based international order” has intrinsically been significantly self-serving, and has consistently favored the global north over the global south, and has overall exacerbated global wealth inequality was pretty incisive and important as well. The facts have been fairly obvious for a while now, and he had the stones to call a spade a spade.

It’s incredible how consistently tone deaf and oblivious German political leadership is these days

Newsom would be a categorically awful pick for president. Being better than orangeboi is a very, very low bar.

And this of course also assumes we’re still having elections at that point - let alone this year.

It’s Nigel Farage, one of the chief proponents of Brexit. He’s still sticking to his guns that it was an inspired idea and a net positive, despite abundant systemic and anecdotal evidence to the contrary. So the real takeaway is “Farage continues to spout idiocy”.

I think that in the future, this very speech may be considered the point at which it became impossible ignore the cracks in the dam.

I don’t think I’ve seen any world leader so cogently, clearly, pragmatically, and forcefully make the point that the old geopolitical order is genuinely dead and gone, that pretending otherwise is a recipe for disaster, but also that there is still a third option for non-superpowers aside from placation and subservience.

The speech is here. It’s really good. It is perhaps the most incisive and important speech I’ve ever seen from a modern politician, and I think it may be considered something of a turning point in the future.

Absolutely agree

The fact that someone stood up and said “we do not trust the honor of the US to fulfill a debt” is important. We’ll see how much of an impact that actually has, but my kneejerk reaction is that it was meaningful.

What the fuck is the point of that? Particularly considering that Putin and his inner circle are surely just cackling in the back room at the prospect of the US becoming a real and serious adversary to the EU?

oh, but surely he wouldn’t actually annex his neighbors! Nobody wants a repeat of the Great War!

Frankly, it makes more sense than many things he’s done. And it doesn’t make any sense at all.

From a unitedstatesian who rather detests what our government is doing: get your specialized tool and component manufacturers to blacklist the US. It doesn’t even have to be at an official level - just stop taking orders from, and shipping to, the US. Our industrial base will simply not be able to function effectively given how much we’ve offshored.

I’m saying I want to make a difference by helping to break the hegemony the country I was born in has on the world. I dare say the only people who would call that a bad thing are specifically the sort of people I absolutely fucking detest in this place.