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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
Former Chief of MI6, Sir Alex Younger speaking on BBC Newsnight about Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the new geopolitical order, and what President Trump should consider.
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Thank you this is a great insight into the views of the UK elites.
I find it especially cute when that Sir dude speaks about how “we”, “us” Europeans have to stick together in order to become an independent pole of the emerging multipolarity. Looks like the US deep state has completely ditched the UK / Airstrip One and London is looking to restore ties with the continent…
Deep state? More like trump is betraying allies left, right and center, in public, for everyone to see whilst cosying up with dictatorships.
When I hear these people say things like, “We need to explain ‘such and such’ to Donald Trump,” I immediately know they dont know what they’re dealing with. Ive heard it a lot in the past week from various Europeans. Trump knows exactly what he’s doing, no amount of talk is going to change his mind. Europe is now the enemy of the US whether they like it or not.
Yes, any analysis that ends with Trump being a rational actor who pursues a reasonable course is doomed.
Trump does not care if Ukraine and all of Europe burn to the ground. If anything, this would be a perfect scenario for his predations..
Trump can lie & demagogue his way out of overseas failures.
Why should Trump consider something just because some former spy says he should. Trump will never do something because some random stranger thinks he should. These news items are just a waste of space. I think the perspective should be, how do we protect our interests. What leverage do we have, how can we make leverage?
The usual double-speak. The ex spook says that Putin won’t allow Ukraine to be a sovereign country. That is technically true if the definition of sovereignty includes the freedom to join NATO and place nuclear capable missiles on Russias doorstep, as well as to kill ethnic Russians in the Donbas and elsewhere.
That’s the reality of geopolitics and superpowers and he knows it. Putin made this very clear at Munich conference of 2007.
Russia is the one killing the most “ethnic” Russians in Donbas and everywhere else. And yes, sovereign nations are free to apply to join organisations as they see fit. The only threat Ukraine joining NATO brings to Russia is a threat to their ability to do what Russia does, interfere and attempt to subjugate and conquer the lands around them and ethnically cleanse their inhabitants.
Considering Russia regularly threatens the world with a nuclear apocalypse, they're the ones who shouldn't be allowed them.
Very clearly put.
Europe needs to develop hard power to stay in the new game, and quickly.
Interesting to say the least.
Does PresidentTrump ever reveal his true agenda?
We shall see.
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