The Emperor's New Clothes!

[LightAngel]

Funny you should say that. Here's a video for you:

https://youtu.be/KntStLHcKYs?si=FZ00Z__g2ONfMEbi

Granted it's a long video and I myself fell asleep three times trying to listen to it a few nights ago, but there was enough resonance in it for me to slap myself awake and pay attention to the message. 

One of the key takeaways is the idea there's a lot more going on under the surface of the competing news headlines and our role is to take the stance of detached compassionate observers instead of feeding into the division and black and white linear thinking of most of the world today. 

Something something something or other about competing timelines or whatever....

I will listen to this later when I have time.

Thanks for sharing.

[Kurokage]

For years, Putin didn't dare to invade Ukraine. You know why? Because Trump was President, and he told Putin that he would nuke Moscow if he dared. When the next President came into office, elected by the "peace and happiness" crowd that had been calling Trump deranged, his weak spine was quickly exploited and a quagmire of war and suffering was the result.

I don't think Trump is writing his own script. I think he's advancing policy agendas that the State Department has had on tap for a while now. It's just, he's the one who can bluster it through. And I think that despite what you see as "chaos" or inconvenience for Denmark, a stronger, more self-sufficient EU will be the result; an EU less dependent on external coddling and support, able to make its own peace and happiness with less compromise.

Many of the career politicians in the European Parliament and member states are merely upset because it will take some work and readjustment on their part, rather than sitting back and enjoying the status quo comfy ride they've had.

I don't think you're right in your assumptions this time.
I think Trump's first presidency helped embolden Putin, as neither him or Obama did anything to stop the invasion and take over of Crimea. Using this time to utilize and prepare for his invasion.

 During the Trump administration’s first year, Volodymyr Zelenskyy was still a showman whose comedy troupe performed patriotic musical numbers with lyrics like “There’s fog over Brussels and frost in Washington” and used a MeToo leitmotif comparing Ukraine’s treatment by Russia and the West to a sexual assault. When Zelenskyy beat an incumbent president in a landslide, Trump actually withheld military aid to Ukraine, sending personal emissaries to Kyiv to try to pressure and undermine Zelenskyy in the eyes of Ukrainians by asking him to “do us a favor, though.”

 
The truth is that during his administration, Trump’s policy alignment with Putin advanced the aims of Russia’s political elites, who could imagine that the United States was on their side. Their comfort with Trump was evident from the start; Americans may remember that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was warmly received in the White House and photographed in the Oval Office, while Russian parliament members toasted Trump’s electoral victory in 2016.
This comfort evaporated with the election of Biden. And for good reason: from the start, the Biden administration has been at odds with Putin on the issues Putin needs to care about to preserve his own rule. After Biden’s election, Russian political elites once again articulated profound, existential anxieties about a renewed United States projecting its power abroad. 

[Vermilion]

[Oldcarpy2]

In this supposed “helping children and everyone else in the world” ~Snip~

That was decades ago.

[chr0naut]

I've just started watching this video, and already there are several lies misrepresentations. He says that Greenland is part Denmark, and has representation in their Parliament. Denmark is part of the EU; Greenland isn't. That is a contradiction. In fact, Greenland has its own Parliament and local government, and Denmark is its territorial owner, controlling things such as foreign policy and defence. If Denmark wants to allow Greenland full autonomy, they certainly can.

In fact, Denmark is not willing to allow Greenland autonomy. Greenlanders are being threatened with high treason and life in prison by those in Denmark if they attempt to negotiate or decide to engage the United States directly:

https://www.berlingske.dk/politik/promin...en-graense

As far as troops go, yes, Denmark has some fine troops. However they simply don't have the numbers to defend Greenland, much less oppose the United States. They are vastly outmatched technologically. As Trump alluded to in his speech, in the absurd event that they decided to get themselves in direct conflict with the United States, they would be on their knees and bleeding from their eyes before they even saw anything coming. The idea that they could fight off a concerted attack from Russia or China, which I also consider unlikely, is equally absurd.

Do you know of what Greenlanders are saying in all this?

[FlyersFan]

Do you know of what Greenlanders are saying in all this?

If they arent' careful, one day soon they'll be speaking Chinese.

[Kurokage]

If they arent' careful, one day soon they'll be speaking Chinese.

That's not going to happen.  Parts of Russia and more of the far East are more likely to be taken by China before any sort of movement on Greenland.

What will Trump do if it was to happen any way? His Legion of Doom Board of Peace won't help as it's just another grift full of dictators and corrupt muslims. Maybe he'll evoke article 5 of the NATO agreement, then he can insult any European soldiers that give their lives in defence of 'Freedom'.

[sahgwa]

The present Geopolitical moves are obviously planned out well in advance in regards the USA and it's hegemony.

The whining and weakness by the EU is just a symptom of at least their subconscious hopefully getting a grip and realising they have made themselves irrelevant.
They took a once prosperous proud and cultured continent, and turned it into a bureacratic technofascist Progressive nanny state fast becoming an Islamist hell hole. 

My friend Dr Farrell says it very succinctly; Trump is not making policy, he is like Budgie said, moving to the beat of the State Dept. and previous plans that have been in the works for years.  
It is all about hedging against the dual power and threat of China and Russia, and of course BRICS as a whole [excuse the length but read the whole thing].  I bolded the most relevant parts:

 If one listens to some commentators and observers, it is basically this: the Trump Administration has released a new long term strategic vision study for the United States. That study essentially is an admission that the United States is no longer in a bi-polar or uni-polar world, and that geopolitically, the world has returned to the same sort of multi-polar situation that obtained up until the end of World War Two, with several major powers defining and policing their own national interest within their own regional spheres of cultural, economic, and political influence. As a result, we may understand firstly that this strategic study and its conclusions probably would have been issued regardless of who was in the White House. It is less a product of the administration, and more a product of that faction of the deep state backing it. The presence of former US Senator Marco Rubio as US Secretary of State in the administration is a symbol of this factional influence.  Many people are misreading his presence as a return to "neo-conservativism". It may be that, but with the provision that the days of bi-polar or uni-polar neo-conservatism are over, and that the US must pivot to prioritize the protection of its own sphere of power and interest: North America and the Caribbean basin.
 
The current talk of annexing Greenland and the actions taken in Venezuela are thus the tangible expressions of this techtonic shift of the geopolitical plates. Venezuela is not just about drugs, or Maduro, nor is it even about "regime change" (one notices thus far a distinct lack of wanting to engage in Bush-era "nation-building". Whether that holds over time remains to b e seen). Drugs are only the narrative being used to "sell" the intervention. It is really about oil, Russia, China, and Cuba. The incursion was meant to solidify US influence in the region, to deny Venezuelan oil to China, and mortally cripple the Chinese, Iranian, and Russian commercial and intelligence presence in that country. Iran may seem like a stranger in that line-up, but it is   to be recalled that Venezuela under Maduro also sponsored a link between the cartels and various Iran-influenced terrorist organizations. The incursion was thus, from first to last, principally about geopolitics, and the USA's pivot to a multi-polar strategy, the essential component of which means asserting and maintaining its role as the regional hegemon, and the expulsion of competitors. In this view, the intervention was a classic example of Realpolitik, and the definite sending of a message to China, Russia, and Iran. (Consider: without Venezuelan oil, will China be strong enough to sustain an invasion of Taiwan and ongoing military occupation? especially with a re-arming Japan right next door, and especially with a wobbly and unstable regime in Iran? That would leave only Russia as the remaining supplier of oil...)
 
It goes without saying that this template also explains the current quest to obtain a complete redesign of relationships with Europe, including the quest to obtain Greenland, and the USA's Middle east policy which includes the current protests in Iran. We are not looking at an adminstration "out of control" and lashing out haphazardly in all directions with no clear plan or objective. One may agree or disagree, of course, with the policy. But haphazard it is not. It is very a deliberate, calculated, and a considered response to the growth of the BRICS alliances in the past decade and a half. This is evident when one considers Europe and the Middle East. The Greenland venture - whether successful or not - signals that the USA has made the long term calculation that it can no longer unquestionably support, nor maintain, its status as the leader of that alliance, and that it is prepared to walk away from Europe altogether if necessary. (That means something else, not well  appreciated, and that is that it has concluded that Russia is not a threat to European security, and even if it were, the experience in The Ukraine has shown the inability of American power to do anything about Russian interventions on the continent.) This means one significant thing, that if Europe is to maintain its security, Germany must rearm, significantly. (That in turn will mean Germany will have to reboot its energy and heavy industry. We've already heard and seen the calls for massive rearmament from Chancellor Merz, and the calls for expansion of its energy sector and protection of its heavy industry, including a reshoring of its manufacturing plant, will likely occur).   Against the backdrop of this template, the Venezuela action sent clear messages not only to China, Russia, and Iran, but also to Europe.
 
The other component of this template is the Middle East. Let me be clear here. I remain opposed to any policy which unquestionably supports any Israeli military action in that region that the Likudniks may take into their twisted little heads, especially when that action results in mass murder. I am equally opposed to any policy which would sanction any murderous incursion into Israel or the elimination of Israel as a sovereign nation. And that brings us to Iran. There is no doubt whatsoever that the current uprisings in Iran against the Islamic regime in that country are part of this geopolitical pivot. This may be appreciated by noting that Iran is the major power backer of the most radicalized Islamist elements within the Middle East, and the principal roadblock to the implementation of the Abraham accords. But the deeper agenda here is also manifest by the geopolitical template and pivot, for those accords are, in turn, designed to block the Islamic word from entering into the BRICS tapestry of alliances, to block, in other words, the continued expansion of China's belt and road initiative, much of which, it will be recalled, depended on Iran. Again, this means the unrest in Iran is not merely accidental; it is likely deliberate, and being aided by several agents provocatuer on the ground. It is designed to remove the key lynchpin piece blocking the attempt to keep that world out of the influence of the BRICS nations, chiefly China and Russia.
 
If there is a message behind all this geopolitical template, it is that the multi-polar world is a cultural version of the old maxim of the Peace of Westphalia (it will be recalled that the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed called explicitly and precisely for such a thing a few years ago): cuius regio eius religio, whose the region, his the religion, with the general political-cultural context replacing the religion aspect of the maxim. In other words, the geopolitical template is being driven by general culture: in effect, the US is saying the following to the various players:
To India: fine, have your Hindu civilizational state and hegemon; to China: fine, have your Marxist version of a Han dynasty and Confucian state; to Russia, fine, have your Orthodox civilization state; to the Islamic world: fine, have your Islamic civilization (but do not encroach on the rights of other groups in your sphere); and to Europe: fine, have your goofy globalist-fascist "pasteurized and processed" union where banksters run everything. But if so, we, the United States, are going to have our own hegemon in the Western hemisphere. 

[Tecate]

The Board of Fleece….

1 Billion Dollars to belong. Ha! Just how stupid do they think that the rational people of the world are?

Unfuckingbelievable.


Tecate

[ANNEE]

My friend Dr Farrell says it very succinctly; Trump is not making policy, he is like Budgie said, moving to the beat of the State Dept. and previous plans that have been in the works for years.  

This should not get lost in your long post. 

I agree a steady systemic controlling takeover has been in the works for decades. Not just US — but global. 

The real question of a NWO — should not be when — but how & who. 

I think it’s inevitable. Money — Power — Control.

Its the logical progression.