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Trump roars back into office: Why US vassals are panicking

Rachel Marsden
RT
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:24 UTC
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© Evan Vucci/APPresident Donald Trump signs executive order during the Presidential Inauguration event at Capital One Arena • January 20, 2025
The newly-inaugurated president is serious about bringing back the glory days and risks leaving Washington's allies in the dust.

It's shock and awe time for Uncle Sam's allies in the clown car who have mindlessly gone along for the ride.

Not only is freshly re-minted US President Donald Trump reversing course at breakneck speed but, if his newly declared priorities are any indication, he seems to be headed, pedal to the metal, all the way back to the 80s.

One has to look back about 40 years to find a "simpler" time in Western society. Life was straightforward. You worked, earned a commensurate livable wage, and focused on your life and that of your family. Period. You didn't have to dedicate bandwidth to navigating lunacy like which pronouns you should be using when you meet someone. Or whether to chop off your kid's junk before the school demands it for his mental health and suggests you be re-educated if you object. Or whether your neighborhood soon risked looking like it was transplanted, in toto, from a foreign country. Or whether there was stuff hidden inside your food that would only make its presence known once it had latched onto your inexplicably ever-widening backside.

Comment: Trump knows the 'set-up' for his administration is crucial. He's wasting no time.

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Another door opens

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00 UTC
Trump portrait
© UnknownUS President Donald Trump • Inauguration Portrait • January 2025
Why is this man glaring?
At a moment of peak triumph and celebration, President-elect Donald J. Trump looks stern in his inauguration portrait.
"...there's little political upside in defending the rights of undocumented shoplifters."
— Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times
If past is prologue, Mr. Trump lacks the acumen to carry out his ambitious agenda. The first problem is management style. In his first term, Mr. Trump was a poor administrator because of his mercurial, polarizing style and a general indifference to facts and the hard work of governance.
— Jack Goldsmith, The New York Times
Thus spake one Shawn McCreesh of The New York Times, America's all-wise, all-knowing font of everlasting rectitude. But to answer his question, why blah blah: Donald Trump is glaring because he means bidness. His bidness is to shift the paradigm on the mendaciously sanctimonious managerial class of the USA, of which The New York Times is the principal mouthpiece. DJT looks stern, does he? All that really tells you is how nervous the Old Gray Lady is. A million or more brains, from sea to shining sea are about to get vacuumed out and redecorated

Comment: Open minds open doors. (It was never locked. We were intimidated to believe it was so.)

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Footprints

Head of IDF resigns over Oct. 7 failures as opposition leaders call on Netanyahu to step down

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 01:05 UTC
Helevi
© Amir Cohen/AFP/Getty ImagesLt. Gen. Herzi Halevi
The head of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi has resigned and will leave his post on March 6.

According to the Times of Israel, Halevi said in a statement:
"I am leaving after recognizing my responsibility for the failure of the IDF on October 7, and at the point in time in which the IDF has recorded significant achievements, and is in the process of implementing an agreement to release hostages. I will transfer command of the IDF in a high-quality and thorough manner to my replacement."
Meanwhile, the head of the IDF Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, is following Halevi's lead, and says he too plans to resign from the military over his responsibility for the IDF's failures leading up to the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack.

Comment: A crux point appears to be approaching for Netanyahu's exit, as loyalties change and 'the war' turns inward on itself. Without Bibi, it could potential a reconsideration of obligation for the Trump administration. That said, Bibi has mastered political storms before and likely will again.

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Trump suspends US foreign assistance for 90 days pending reviews... except for Israel

Matthew Lee
Associated Press
Tue, 21 Jan 2025 18:19 UTC
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© AP Photo/Evan Vucci
President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily suspending all U.S. foreign assistance programs for 90 days pending reviews to determine whether they are aligned with his policy goals.

It was not immediately clear how much assistance would initially be affected by the Monday order as funding for many programs has already been appropriated by Congress and is obligated to be spent, if not already spent.

The order, among many Trump signed on his first day back in office, said the "foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with American interests and in many cases antithetical to American values" and "serve to destabilize world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries."

Consequently, Trump declared that "no further United States foreign assistance shall be disbursed in a manner that is not fully aligned with the foreign policy of the President of the United States."
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MAGA

Trump Pardons Approximately 1,500 Jan. 6 Political 'Hostages'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 20 Jan 2025 18:09 UTC
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President Trump on Monday gave a 'full pardon' to over 1,500 political prisoners who were involved in the Jan. 6 riot.

Earlier in the day, Trump told a yuge crowd at the Capitol One Arena that he was going to "release our great hostages," referring to the Jan. 6 prisoners.

"As soon as I leave, I'm going to the Oval Office, and we'll be signing pardons for a lot of people, a lot of people," Trump continued.

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy, is currently being processed for release from FCI Pollock, a medium security federal prison in Louisiana, NBC News reports. Tarrio had been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison after his conviction.

"He is being processed out," said his attorney, Nayib Hasssan. "We do not know what type of clemency he is receiving."
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Better Earth

The merits of a demilitarized "Trans-Dnieper" region controlled by non-Western peacekeepers

Andrew Korybko
korybko.substack.com
Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00 UTC
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© unknown
This proposal is the most realistic means for keeping the peace after an armistice.

Bloomberg cited unnamed "people with knowledge of Kremlin thinking" to report that Russia will only demand that Ukraine restore its constitutional neutrality, "drastically cut back military ties with the NATO alliance", limit its army, and freeze the front lines, albeit with some territorial swaps. Also:
"The Kremlin's position is that while individual NATO members may continue to send arms to Ukraine under bilateral security agreements, any such weapons should not be used against Russia or to recapture territory."
To be sure, Bloomberg might have either invented their sources or they're uninformed of what the Kremlin thinks, but there's also the possibility that they're accurately reflecting what it plans to ask for during peace talks. Hopefully Russia's demands of Ukraine are more than what Bloomberg just reported, however, because the aforesaid requests would be settling for much less than it might otherwise be able to achieve as suggested by some of the proposals made at the end of this analysis here.

Comment: War is an inevitable exercise in 'diminishing' returns. No matter the outcome or winner, 'less' is the mutual result.

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Star of David

Bibi assures Israelis that the genocide will resume after 42 days

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00 UTC
Guy with tableet
© Unknown
Everything we attempted to do has failed. We could not destroy Hamas or the Palestinians. We were powerless in preventing the Syrian revolution. We killed Nasrallah but failed to destroy Hizballah. We most certainly did not destroy the Houthis. We lost.
Ori Goldberg
On one hand, the ceasefire agreement appears to be the worst deal that Hamas could have made. But on the other hand, the agreement helps to show that — after 16 months of nonstop slaughter and destruction — Israel has failed to achieve any of its strategic objectives nor has it dampened the spirits of the indomitable Palestinians. On top of that, Israel has exposed itself as a thoroughly immoral rogue regime without a trace of humanity.
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Arrow Down

The lousiest president of all time

Jeremy Egerer
American Thinker
Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:00 UTC
Joe and covid
© UnknownPresident Joe Biden and the Covidians
Anybody who wants to explain how bad the Biden administration is has to start with COVID. As such, we knew a few things early on in the pandemic, and they were as follows:
  1. The average age of death from the virus was in the 80s.
  2. It had almost zero effect on young people and children.
  3. Most people who died from it had three or more co-morbidities — that is, they were old as hell, fat as a hog, and really liked smoking, or drinking, or cancer.
  4. It was in the same class of virus as the common cold.
Once we knew these things, especially the last one, the obvious thing to do was to give up. There was no point crippling the strong for the sake of the weak, when the weak depend upon the strong, and most of the weak aren't affected by COVID anyway. We should have put the elderly on welfare and expanded Medicaid a bit and let the rest of us run loose. No — we should have subsidized tickets to bath houses and any place kids eat that has a ball pit.

We like to say "hindsight is 20/20," but this isn't hindsight at all. Hell, it was 2020. The stuff I mentioned above was the conclusion every person with regular sight came to the second our government called most workers "non-essential." Yet this society was immediately cleaved in two. All the healthy and thoughtful people were pitted against the sanctimonious do-gooders, the goose-steppers, and the hysterical weaklings.

And they beat us into submission, big time.
And Joe Biden was their champion.

Comment: Biden is a pawn. His prize quality: Corruption, with a propensity to exercise that trait to the fullest.

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The 'madman strategy': The secret behind Trump's foreign policy

Vitaly Ryumshin
RT
Mon, 20 Jan 2025 20:49 UTC
Trump
© Getty Images/Getty ImagesUS President Donald Trump attends a private party at Trump National Golf Club • January 18, 2025 • Sterling, Virginia
Why the 47th president's Greenland move could reshape the world order.

Donald Trump certainly knows how to grab attention. The new US president has entered the 2025 political season like a bull in a china shop.

In less than a month, Trump and his team have managed to rattle Canada, Mexico, and Panama. But while these moves could be dismissed as political trolling, it's Denmark that's really on edge. Overnight, Greenland, previously regarded as a remote, unremarkable landmass, has become the crown jewel of Trump's imperial ambitions.

Reports from US media insiders suggest Trump is "100% serious" about his intention to grab the island. The president-elect has even hinted at taking the island by force if Denmark refuses to sell. This has sparked a flurry of debates in the American press, with even Trump's detractors weighing the military capabilities of America and Denmark and calculating the potential benefits of controlling Greenland.

Naturally, theories abound as to why Trump is so fixated on this land.
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Trump to suspend security clearances for CIA contractors who colluded to discredit Hunter Biden laptop

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:25 UTC
laptop hanter biden
© New York Post; REUTERS / Jonathan Ernst
President-elect Donald Trump will suspend the security clearances of 51 former intelligence officials who were found to have coordinated with the 2020 Biden campaign to discredit credible and serious allegations contained on Hunter Biden's laptop about his family's influence peddling operation.

According to the Fox News, citing a senior administration official, Trump will take action against the so-called "Spies Who Lie," as one of at least 100 executive orders he's expected to sign on his first day back in the Oval Office.

Comment: And so it is:


With a special shout-out to war whore John Bolton:




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