General News Thread

[Sampson]

1 hour ago, Lionator said:

Nah america’s power is still wild when you think about it. No other country could have done that today. Maybe China in a few years  and only on the basis they knew the US wouldn’t engage them. 

Yes but it’s not about short term effects it’s about the medium-term erosion of the international institutions. It’s about showing that international institutions become nothing more than a bluff if American power isn’t behind them, which gives other regional powers more strength to control their region knowing there’s less reason to follow international law.
 

Feels like with each one of these events we’re abandoning the post-1945 world of international institutions and we’re reverting to the pre-1914 world of military power locks and spheres of influence

Edited 3 January by Sampson

[Bellend Sebastian]

That Four Seasons Landscaping press conference feels like a lifetime ago

[leicsmac]

14 minutes ago, Lionator said:

Will be interesting to see how European politicians react to this given the moral grandstanding of the past few years. 

Not sure it's moral grandstanding to point out that the Might Makes Right bullshit that the US and other parties are currently engaged in ends terribly for everyone. 

 

Or if it is, it's also accurate. Act like animals, fall like animals. 

[SkidsFox]

Awesome stuff (if for all the wrong reasons). For some reason I'm reminded of when Germany sent its special forces to recapture Mussolini after his fall from power.

[Mike Oxlong]

1 hour ago, Md9 said:

they should take the World Cup games away from America , they won’t but they should 

I was thinking of having a small flutter on the 45th and 47th President scoring a winning hat trick in the final for Team USA after their opponents, Brazil, have been reduced to 7 players after a spate of red cards for dissent. 

[Danizen]

1 hour ago, fox_up_north said:

I know we protested the big clubs joining a super league before but I changed my mind. Can the US and Russia just sod off to another planet?

 

It's really not helpful

Lump in China as well. They're obsessed with the 2000s being their century and I understand it but they along with the oligarchies of Russia and the USA who oppose green energy because it gets in the way of their billions, will ruin this planet for the rest of us. 

[Md9]

With trumps memory gone to mush he will probably forget why he has even arrested him. Maduro will ask him if he wants to build a new golf course in Venezuela and trump will let him go before he realises what he actually taken him for 

[leicsmac]

11 minutes ago, Danizen said:

Lump in China as well. They're obsessed with the 2000s being their century and I understand it but they along with the oligarchies of Russia and the USA who oppose green energy because it gets in the way of their billions, will ruin this planet for the rest of us. 

China are doing a lot of questionable things. 

 

Opposing green energy is not one of them. In fact, they're the only big power taking that problem even vaguely seriously, given the speed and capacity that they're building renewable infrastructure. 

[Super_horns]

Trump wants to end war but then starts another !

[st albans fox]

11 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Trump wants to end war but then starts another !

He isn’t counting those he starts , only those he finishes 

clever eh?
add one to the list !

[bovril]

26 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Trump wants to end war but then starts another !

No, more war! 

[Guest Umbungo78]

1 hour ago, Zear0 said:

Potential Big Brother spin-off there

Should be more like im a celebrity and have them all eating kamgaroo balls for public votes 

[Trav Le Bleu]

There's more to this than meets the eye. You don't capture a foreign leader by unleashing hell, you're more likely to kill them or send them underground.

 

Maduro was told this was coming and gave himself up to let others deal with the fallout. Probably was "captured" before the attack even began.

[leicsmac]

Just now, Trav Le Bleu said:

There's more to this than meets the eye. You don't capture a foreign leader by unleashing hell, you're more likely to kill them or send them underground.

 

Maduro was told this was coming and gave himself up to let others deal with the fallout. Probably was "captured" before the attack even began.

Yeah, it's too "clean", so it's entirely possible that there's been some kind of agreement reached in the background. 

 

Still reprehensible that the US thinks it can still apply the Monroe Doctrine like it did to Allende in Chile in the year 2026, though. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

 

Still reprehensible that the US thinks it can still apply the Monroe Doctrine like it did to Allende in Chile in the year 2026, though. 

Santiago to be renamed Trumpovia?

[Md9]

2 days ago 

[leicsmac]

Another possibility is that someone in Maduro's government with enough access to him sold him out. 

[Happy Fox]

Trump to do similar in Iran in the coming days?

[Finnegan]

57 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Trump wants to end war but then starts another !

 

Trump absolutely does not want to end war. 

 

You know this for two reasons, firstly because he's said he does and he's spent his entire life basically playing the opposite game 

 

Secondly, no US president ever wants to stop war. Their economy is pretty much propped up by there being, at very least, a proxy war somewhere they're involved in. 

 

Genuine peace would put them in recession. 

 

[Finnegan]

2 minutes ago, Happy Fox said:

Trump to do similar in Iran in the coming days?

 

Lmao, good luck. 

[martyn]

In and out in hours. Makes Putin look like even more of a mug.

[OntarioFox]

They're actual fascists. I know that term has been thrown around so much in the social media era that its meaning has become diluted, but if an entire country engaging in imperialism rooted in at-best flimsy evidence, seemingly on the whim of a single, narcissistic old man who has a cult-like following of morons and sycophants... *breathe*... isn't Fascism, then I don't know what is.

 

The USA is a f**king terrifying place right now and Europe can't rely on it as an ally until the orange man is removed from office.

[Trav Le Bleu]

"We practice selective annihilation of mayors and government officials, for example, to create a vacuum, then we fill that vacuum. As popular war advances, peace is closer."

 

Except the quality of the vacuum filling is inevitably poor.

 

 

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

"We practice selective annihilation of mayors and government officials, for example, to create a vacuum, then we fill that vacuum. As popular war advances, peace is closer."

 

Except the quality of the vacuum filling is inevitably poor.

 

 

That quote could have been lifted directly from IngSoc in 1984.

 

Stop this timeline, I want to get off 

[OntarioFox]

made it three days into 2026 without some geopolitical bs happening though, must be a new record