Yeah he’ll withdraw troops and NATO support no matter how things go in Europe …

He’ll need more armyboots at home defending his regime … also needs to recoup costs due to losing out on tax income and tariff lies. Then there is this thing where he wants to give Putin this favor of dismantling NATO.

So, his demand was 2% in 2017 … and countries are exceeding that, Poland is already spending more than even the US, and Germany is climbing, so he upped it to 5% to get the excuse of the US backing out.

Even if they meet 5%, in a few years he’ll up it further.

Ofcourse for now he’ll assume the NATO members still feel bound to keep supplying intelligence information and buy American weaponry, even if NATO falls apart.

He needs Russia to win…

Because Putin demands it of him to force it that way.

I suspect Trump hopes Putin will give him 20% anyway

Yes, it’s mostly Putins goal, he knows the US will be too busy internally/incompetent to mean anything on a world stage so Russia takes the lead.

Musk is a firm believer of being part of the destruction of the world and desires to be on the forefront of reshaping it… For him it’s all good 'till the restructuring begins.

So the path to world war has been firmly set in motion:

Trump fully destroys the US’ international influence by dismantling the NATO and UN memberships, closing bases on foreign soil and discarding its external intelligence machine.

Ukraine will not want to be conquered and can make its own nukes, will be a huge pain for Russia.

Russia will attempt to take back eastern Europe, first through (political)chaos then by force, like it has done times and times again in the past.

Iran will see the US kneeling before Russia and openly attacks Israel with all it has, the US will try to call on the Arab states to intervene, but it would be in the name of Israel which… yeah is a bit awkward…

India and Japan will declare neutrality, Japan closes itself off from the world as in the olden days, and India has a few worms to pick with Pakistan…

Afrika is a tribal bloodbath on it’s own and no party in this.

China will feel legitimized in taking Taiwan and perhaps all of Korea, which destroys the Wests supply of silicon. Causing a tipping point into all out war over the whole globe…

You’re right in that, I just did not want to put that in words yet :-]

I wonder how much another overwhelming fraudulous win for MAGA would be ignored, because it definitely is a clear sign bridges were burned.

The one thing that would have stopped all this and put things on a different path is immediately lock up Trump and co-conspirators under solid treason charges, it was easy to prove as well.

But the wishy washy and slow way the investigation and justice machine rolled is what gave Trump all the chances.

He got to puff up his ego for years on being unjustly attacked, and (re)grow the cult around him.

He got his supreme court to give him king-like powers (and now he claims the rest of the kingly might and immunity).

He got Elon Musk to spy on everyone, steal all private data including home adresses to sick cultists to… and Elon now has the means to destroy the financial transaction of anyone against the regime…

The blame for it all was not directly on Biden, the democrats nor on the elections themselves, this was on a system that was apathetic and waiting out time for the one thing to happen.

And again the system is waiting out time to see what happens at the next elections, but that will turn out to be a mirage, Trump and co will not relinquish power anymore.

All of it was stopped if Trump was locked up. He should never have been a 2nd candidate, not just not eligible but locked up for decades.

The democrats would indeed need to find more charismatic leadership with fighting spirit, but the MAGA camp had been given a crippling blow.

Now the world watches as the USA destroys itself permanently, has its influence drift away on the winds, and loses everything to its ages old communist enemy Russia.

I think you’re right, but the chance is very high they will cancel midterms shortly before the date.

Probably spouting some excuse. Either in the line of it undermining “democracy” because Trump was already chosen, or they’ll go the way of it being a plan to block the current path for the USA so it will be postponed until the plan is on more solid grounds, “for the good of the country”.

If they do let the midterms proceed, Trump will dismiss the results whatever they are, citing that by then he only has governing power.

He already has made an executive order that only he and a sole AG decide what the law is…

A promise was made that when he was chosen he’d make it so that there would be no need to vote again…

Everybody seems to hold on to the midterms as the slot where things will turn around again, but the project 2025 camp has plans to close this window for sure. And frankly, it feels by then fear will rule all and the slippery slope has shifted to a freefall.

Alas, the message Heggseth is spreading in Trump’s name in Europe and Ukraine is that all will be given to Putin and all the fighting and killing and spending of billions has been moot.

No US protection, no NATO soldiers in Ukraine to keep peace.

No return of taken lands, no reparations to be paid by invader russia.

No NATO membership.

No large Ukrainian army allowed.

And ofcourse: No guarantees that Putin won’t return to forcibly claim the rest or destroy Ukraine 5 years on.

And it is not spoken of but the valuable resources go to Russia, not the US. The seized Russian assets ofcourse will be given back to Putin under a gesture of severe groveling and kneeling by the west.

In effect, the USA lost all and Putin won the conflict.

Think about it … the USA LOSES this conflict against a severely outclassed enemy. Only because Trump is afraid of his idol Putin.

Remember when Trump did away with the regulations to register car accidents caused by electric vehicles and self driving mechanisms?

Now there’s no way to prove its a problem with the car when Tesla starts sueing customers in the US, and it learned it can do that from China.

But also, his goons are completely vulnerable either way and there is little the president can do with his own hands.

They all hope for/assume/were promised full pardons.

King Trump does not understand the concept of paying debts, always equates it to being stolen from.

So ofcourse he will try to weasel himself out of paying debts, that he’ll tank the US credibility on the financial markets will be declared someone else’s fault.

Putin is signaling to his adoring fan Trump that Ukraine’s special resources “belong” to Russia.

To both Trump and Putin this is not about Ukraine at all.

The crux of the matter is: did Trump wake up about the value of those resources and prefers to permanently claim them for himself? Or will he see it as a great gift to hand them to Putin on a later date so that both can “save face”?

Putin wants the resources and will destroy the identity of Ukraine and make it Russian so it will never leave the flock again. He will also keep trying, in 10 years or more he will keep coming back for the resources. He has done it in 1990, in 2014 and in 2021. But he needs Ukraine to be fully disarmed.

In 1990 he forced Ukraine to give away it’s nuclear armaments, later he made it give up the navy that Ukraine was left with when it split from the USSR. In 2014 he saw chance to take parts of Ukraine by force, thinking he could take the rest by subterfuge of having his own soldiers fight anonymously as “breakaway Ukraine rebels” but it failed because Ukraine was still armed well and intent on defending it’s identity. 2021 Putin tried again, thinking Ukraine’s armaments now were hopelessly outdated and Russia had a lot of “modern” material, his 3-day takeover plan was thwarted by the Ukrainian fighting spirit. And what is worse, it showed that the military might of Russia was a paper tiger, the equipment was not up to snuff to an enemy intent on defending itself, so Russia had to fall back to it’s centuries old tactic of overwhelming the enemy with cannon fodder.

But now the limit of reasonability is reached, Putin can not endlessly throw cannonfodder at Ukraine. With all the western weapons far outclassing what it can fabricate and train, Russia has lost the military fight and will turn to political paths. First to keep the conquered Ukrainian lands and designate them as Russia, then have the West lose interest in Ukraine’s membership of NATO and perhaps the EU. But still demand the delivery of the resources to Russia. And in about 15 years he’ll come with the same excuse again and try to take Ukraine once more.

Russia wants the resources … In time the gas supplies will have its prices slashed due to the continued growth of renewable energy.

And his adoring fan Trump can and likely will aid him speed it all up if he can use him to have the west withdraw all support.

All are now enrolled into the new Muskian Social Credit System.

Trumpland.

^~Which still will get slowly whittled away by Israeli expansion~^

The term Treason should definitely get its meaning and severity back.

Billionaires and companies actively undermining the Government should be taxed to the highest bracket, fined on top, and where applicable broken up.

The mantra is that judges are there only to uphold the law and strictly punish the common people and all who stand in “maga’s” way.

You’re forgetting he made up “the millions and millions of illegal immigrants crossing the border”

Which, to him, are all living together in halls and single decrepid buildings and easily picked up.

He envisioned the numbers and now must make them exist, or at least make the deportations logically match up.

Ofcourse it’s not going to line up so he’ll find new victims, next targets will be freshly awarded green cards, to be checked for discrepancies like spelling errors or those with recent adress changes, or say any green card holder who committed a small crime like jaywalking in the last 10 years.

But hey, it is good for the unemployment numbers!

… Hitler also targeted others besides jews, gypsies, colored, disabled people, all under the pretense of danger to and burdens on the society …

Somehow I think he didn’t resign because of the remarks specifically but because he was named and shamed in the spotlight.

“Comfortable”:

Where having 3 jobs doesn’t even give a proper living wage… Where a health crisis will bankrupt you… Where the common people pay the taxes for the richest. Where vacation days are tightly controlled and preferrably denied. Already the doctrine is: “You Live To Work”.

And this is before Trump started slashing all government aid and will give even more money to the rich, thinking the populace will make up the difference on the countries income…

Now he just about personally has total control of the government payment system, down to the social serurity number of each individual. A good weapon to have.

(Had a long rant here about the US’ bleak future, but it’s not befitting the discussion at this moment)

My point being, things are only a very small drop to where it’s too late and the shackles are clamped on.

The ones sworn in to uphold the law and constitution are the ones who need to step in now, but are too afraid or corrupted to risk standing up.

King Trump already is above regular checks and balances.

What I find interesting yet distressing is that no one asks “WHY?”

What does an unelected outsider have to gain from getting access to SOURCE CODE of the US payment system (not just a running pc in the payment network, no, actual code is bring changed)

Why? Why demand code access and what is being changed in the dark hours of the night when there is little oversight?

And no; “because transgenders” is not an acceptable answer!

BTW… expect fully encrypted code where possible so no one else besides Musk can read it … think of the lasting repercussions of that … it’s a malware bomb on the governmental payment system.