jusplay4fun wrote: Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:16 pm1) Ukraine-Russia first, meeting with Zelenskyy (and talked to Putin, on the phone), and
Yes, you are quite right. Trump has expended a truly extraordinary amount of effort strong-arming Zelensky into accepting the "20 point" plan which gives Russia everything it ever asked for, and gives Ukraine nothing but empty promises in return. When the Russian oligarchs started funding Trump in 1996, they could not have hoped for a better return on their investment. If anyone can con the Ukraine into accepting this totally one-sided "peace" plan, it's the Trump mob.
jusplay4fun wrote: Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:16 pm2) Gaza-Israel, meeting with Netanyahu
Yes, you are quite right. Trump continues to legitimize the warmonger Nutty Yahoo. He continues to pretend that there is some kind of a peace accord in Gaza, where Israeli forces have shot 400 innocent civilians since the signing of the bogus "ceasefire" only ten weeks ago. You didn't do the math, but it does mean 40 people per week have been gunned down since the laughably-named "Cease fire" was signed.
jusplay4fun wrote: Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:16 pmwhere BOTH crucial meetings happened at Mar-A-Largo.
Yes, you are quite right. Trump continues to insult the U.S.A. by transacting official business in his personal whorehouse instead of in official government facilities.
It reminds me very much of Louis XIV, who forced both French nobility and foreign ambassadors to treat with him at his person playground in Versailles instead of in the seat of French government at Paris. We studied this in history, back in the day. The French kings had very broad power to begin with; checks and balances were few. Even the few checks on his power were unacceptable to Louis in his drive towards absolute tyranny. By moving royal business away from the law courts, Louis made it impossible for victims of his policies to sue for redress and avail themselves of what few legal safeguards existed. In the same manner, he moved himself away from the bishops who were the other power that might have resisted royal absolutism.
I think much the same is the case with Trump's shifting of the fulcrum of power from Washington to Palm Beach. He gets farther from the Congress and reduces its influence over him. He's able to see disreputable visitors like Roger Stone without any official record of the visits which would happen if he held his meetings at the White House or Camp David. He's able to sidestep a lot of public oversight of the things he does, which would happen if his meetings were being held in official government facilities. It's definitely in perfect keeping with the standard tyrant's playbook.
jusplay4fun wrote: Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:16 pm3) Trumps threatens Iran.
Yes, you are quite right. The guy who tore up the Iran peace plan in 2016 and raised the extremists in Teheran back to power, is still at it. Still working with Israel to prevent any lasting peace. His big question now is, does he let Nutty Yahoo bomb Iran and have all the fun, or does he use American forces as well like last time? And this is the shit-disturber who thought he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize.
jusplay4fun wrote: Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:16 pm4) Did I mention that he authorized US actions in Nigeria to punish those killing Christians?
Well, you spoiled your perfect record. You're only
half-right on this one. While it is true that Trump has bombed seccessionst forces in Nigeria, most experts say they are not religious in nature. There are mainly tribal and regional conflicts at play here. The claim that seperatist militias in Nigeria are Muslims killing Christians is a bogus propaganda claim made to gain support from gullible American bible-thumpers. The seccessionists fight both Muslim and Christian forces with equal vigour. Link to educate yourself:
https://theconversation.com/is-there-a- ... sts-268929. Whether Trump actually believes "war on Christians" propaganda, or whether he is just pretending to believe it for his own nefarious purposes, I cannot say for sure.
jusplay4fun wrote: Tue Dec 30, 2025 11:16 pm5) In what I think is a bad move, he apparently acts against Venezuela at a port where illegal drugs are loaded onto boats. Such actions is inching closer to an actual WAR.
Yes, you are quite right. Trump is doing everything he can to push Venezuela into war. A lot of the presidents in American history are associated in the public mind with some kind of war -- Bush with Iraq, Nixon with Cambodia, Johnson with Vietnam, Roosevelt with WWII, etc., etc., and Trump's ego demands that he have a war of his own that will forever be associated with his name. He has one problem -- he needs a
casus belli. He needs some way to attack while making it look like they started it. So far, the Venezuelans have fervently avoided fighting back despite innumerable attacts on them. How far will he have to go to provoke them to war? Time will tell!