Col. Doug Macgregor was talking with Andrew Napolitano the other day – the day after Trump channeled his inner Chimp and “regime changed” Venezuela on behalf of (among others) his big business buddies in the oil and other natural resources extraction businesses – when he mentioned what RFK, Jr. said to a crowd at a Trump rally back in 2024. It is worth remembering:
Don’t you want a president, Kennedy asked, who will “end the grip of the neocons?”
By which he meant the Israel Firsters who pretend to be “conservative” so long as it advances the interests of Israel.
These IF’ers used to be (overtly) Trotskyite Leftists when the Cold War was still being fought but had to pretend to support the American side in that Cold War because the Soviet side was providing aid to Israel’s opponents in the Middle East, especially Egypt during the Nasser era. How to stymie that? By infiltrating the American government – posing as staunch opponents of the Soviet Union!
Voila, “neoconservatism” was born.
These “neocons” – the Kristols, the Podhoretzes, the Wurmsers and Feiths, along with the Kagans, Nulands, Chertoffs and Boltons and Cheneys – acquired operative control of “conservatism” about 26 years ago, when their chosen goy, George W. Bush ascended to the presidency in the very sketchy 2000 election, which everyone has forgotten. 
These “neocons” were the chief architects of the so-called “War on Terror” – a term coined by Benny “Netanyahu,” incidentally. The air fingers quotes are to mark the habitual use of etymological deception to further the aims of “neoconservatism.” They told us about “weapons of mass destruction” and “mushroom clouds.” They succeeded in getting America to regime change Iraq on behalf of Israel in the wake of “911,” which became a kind of trigger word that compelled reflexive expressions of support for the “War on Terror” that terrorized Americans, in their new “Homeland.”
Syria got regime-changed, too. And now, Venezuela. Col. Macgregor mentioned to Napolitano that – apparently – one of the first figures to publicly congratulate the Orange Man for regime-changing Venezuela was Nathan Rothschild.
But wasn’t the Orange Man re-elected to – among other things – end the grip of the neocons?
Well, that’s certainly what many (probably most) of the people who voted for Trump a second time expected was going to happen. Turns out they expected wrong. It ought not to be surprising. If anything, it ought to have been expected – because Trump has never been an America Firster anymore than “necons” are conservatives, except when it is situationally convenient because pretending to be one advances other interests. A particular interest.
Ben Shapiro and Mark Levin, for instance.
The interests of Trump and the “neocons” are congruent because both are Israel-Firsters. Trump is not only no-longer-evasive about this; he is belligerently open about it. He brags of his love for Israel; he croons lovey-dovey to uber Israelis such as Miriam Adelson, in public – indifferent (perhaps oblivious) to the way this is received by Americans who do not believe Israel or any other foreign country ought to come first.
It’s not what Americans voted for – but it is what America got.
What else are Americans going to get?
Probably regime-change in Iran, on behalf of Israel. Maybe the regime-change in Venezuela was the prelude to this, done in order to assure the oil flows when the oil in the Middle East stops flowing. 
An attempt to regime-change Iran could trigger a chain of events Americans will not like. The Iranians were able to give as good as they got the last time, when Israel (by itself, sort of – using weapons systems Americans were taxed to provide) began letting fly at the Iranians. Imagine a scenario in which the Iranians give back better. It is possible they have acquired the means to do just that. Of course, if they do, the state of Israel will likely exercise its Samson Option, with the nuclear weapons it pretends not to have, that were acquired illegally.
One thing we’re not supposed to know is that the other Kennedy – JFK – attempted to prevent that from happening, by pressuring the leaders of that state to come clean (via inspections) regarding what they were doing at Dimona.
And just like that, no more JFK.
In his place, a true friend of Israel, Lyndon Johnson – who threatened the survivors of the Israeli attack upon the USS Liberty with dire repercussions if they ever said a public word about what the Israeli air force did to an American ship and to American sailors.
Jack Rubenstein also did a favor for LBJ, by making sure the patsy never talked.
We’re all the patsies now.
Just look at what we elected.
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RE: “Ending the Grip of The Neocons”.
Have any of you been keeping up with Candice Owens?
Last I saw, she was laying out how the F.B.I. was/is, “the dog which didn’t bark”.
Until that’s fleshed out, much like the J.F.K. magic bullet, there’s no< "Ending the Grip of The Neocons”.
…They write the history, we just watch.
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PAWNs.
FBI…???
You mean the
Feral
Bolshevik
Institute???
Name the true enemy….
[…] Is Trump foreign policy different in any measurable way from George W. Bush’s? From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com: […]
Had anyone else noticed the crazy similarity between Trump’s political agenda and the game of Risk?
If you want to hold the “American” territory the key is to occupy and build up Alaska, Greenland and Venezuela since those are the only 3 paths in.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/vg0o3d/the_world_map_according_to_the_board_game_risk/?rdt=61799
Interesting! Hasbro specifies the age range for Risk as 10+, so if Trump has played it recently, he probably had somebody helping him.
I think, you missed the point. StraitGate.
There might be more to the Greenland ploy than meets the eye. British PM Sir Neil Starmer was set to give away the Chagos Archipelago, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, plus £35 billion, to Mauritius. The UK House of Lords has stopped the transfer for now and there is a political firestorm over the issue in Britain. Starmer was trying to sneak through the deal.
If he had gotten his way, the Chagos islands might have ended up in Chinese hands eventually because of corruption in Mauritius. The US leases the Chagos island of Diego Garcia from Britain for a large military base, which has been used for numerous important missions. This would have ended soon if Starmer had succeeded.
My suspicion is that Trump’s sudden interest in Greenland again and this attempt to place an island holding a prime US base in China’s grasp are related. Trump is looking at the possibility the Chagos deal will happen regardless, so we need an alternative. Greenland might be the best possibility.
Just remember: China and Russia are still out there and they aren’t friends of the US or the West.
Russia and China aren’t “the enemy” either. The REAL enemy is the shithole apartheid desert colony who are genociding the rightful inhabitants of that land. And the sooner the secret rendition and torture base at Diego Garcia goes away, the better.
Please open your eyes and purge the “conservative” fear mongering propaganda. Your post sounds straight out of Redstate or The Gateway Pundit.
No fear-mongering intended. It looks as though Trump’s interest in Greenland (again) and Starker’s near-deal to get rid of the islands that include Diego Garcia are more than coincidental. That doesn’t mean trying to annex Greenland is a great idea.
Great idea? WTF are you on?? You must agree with that little rat bastard Stephen Miller that “might makes right” and that the US should go and just take that which does not belong to it.
Thanks for confirming why I despise most “conservatives”
Reading comprehension, sir. I said, “That DOESN’T mean trying to annex Greenland is a great idea.” Doing so isn’t a great idea. I don’t like the idea of Trump trying to take Greenland. Clear now?
Get a grip and read what others write more carefully. You’re pulling the same shit as most other leftists, twisting everything to fit your agenda.
People’s brains are broken to the point that it’s impossible to hold multiple conflicting thoughts on a subject at once while trying to come to an opinion.
Everything must be polar and binary.
Love or hate.
There is no maybe, no incremental change possible, no data collection, discussion or changing your mind.
You must decide.
Right now.
Absolutely.
The interests of Trump and the “neocons” are congruent because both are Israel-Firsters. Trump is not only no-longer-evasive about this; he is belligerently open about it. He brags of his love for Israel…
By this standard, he is also an America Firster. He brags about his love of America. He implements policies intended to restore America to it’s former state, like, for example, deportations and taking a hatchet to the childhood immunization schedule, hacking it from 72 to 11, IIRC.
And Hitler built Autobahns, designed the Volkswagen, and slashed unemployment.
Is having ICE gestapo goons shoot women in the face America’s former state? (I know, I know, she deserved it, don’t get in the way of tossing wetbacks in the van, obey your master, blah blah). I don’t remember that state. Fuck Trump and his idea of what America First is. And fuck the red had sycophants who lap this disgusting behavior up and thereby encourage more of it. Puke.
Amen, BAC –
That business in MN yesterday was appalling. Outright summary execution in the street. IDF tactics on American streets. The shooter will, of course, not even receive a parking ticket for murdering that woman. I feel sick – and angry.
Two completely idiotic comments in a row! The hasbara trolls must have stumbled upon EP Autos and unleashed their worst.
BTW there has been NO change to the vicious childhood immunization schedule. Bobby Jr. has been completely neutered and sidelined, as has Tulsi. I guess they have managed to ban a couple food dyes or something, otherwise NADA has been accomplished.
Morning, Steve –
The idea that the interests of Americans are congruent with those of the state of Israel is fatuous. As regards the illegals: It is one thing to deport them. It is another to murder American citizens in the streets.
The Venezuela invasion by the USA is an attempt to prop up the “petrodollar”, the unit of currency used worldwide to purchase oil products.
The USA dollar has been the principle currency used to purchase oil products throughout the world. This system was established in 1974 by none other than Henry Kissinger in order to prop up the USA dollar.
THAT is the reason forced regime change is being imposed on Venezuela.
Venezuela has been selling oil to all comers, demanding payment in any currency but petrodollars. This is causing USA interests to react negatively towards Venezuela.
The same situation existed in Libya which was set to demand payment for oil in gold, silver, and other non-USA currencies. This is why the USA assassinated Libya’s leader Ghaddafi.
If the petrodollar goes down, so does the USA federal reserve system. The only thing propping up the USA dollar is its use in petroleum transactions.
If Iran is successful in shutting down the Strait of Hormuz after an israeli attack, Venezuela will be the only large petroleum reserve in the world.
The USA dollar is on life-support, only being worth about 0.22 cents compared to its worth in 1970. It’s use as the petrodollar is the only think keeping it afloat.
>Libya which was set to demand payment for oil in gold, silver, and other non-USA currencies. This is why the USA assassinated Libya’s leader Ghaddafi.
Exactly. Same situation occurred with Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
This seems correct but the problem the hegemon has now is that the U.S. has pissed all over Europe and the rest of the world already chaffs under the yoke…..with a $38 trillion direct debt and an unmanageable hook for unfunded mandates, this shitshow cannot continue…..the BRICS consortium is offering the global south a much better deal and it’s only a matter of time before the whole house of cards collapses…..and hopefully Israel goes down at the same time…..forgive me, I am extremely black pilled these days. OTOH, if Erdoğan gets his wet dream of the second Ottoman Empire, we are all fucked, but Israel is doubly fucked…..so there is an upside.
Hi Eric,
Good column…you hit all the high level relevant points…..LBJ flies under the radar when people tick off some of the worst presidents in U.S. history but he was terrible, not just for the Liberty coverup and his part in the assassination of Kennedy, but also for his part in pushing the U.S. escalation of the Viet Nam conflict. In fact, the 20th century was filled with horrible actors in power and the 21st is even worse…..let’s hope the Israel Uber Alles contingent loses power soon.
Morning, Giuseppe!
Thanks as always for the kind words! I dread what comes next, which appears to have taken on a kind of kinetic inevitability. God help us. By the way, it’s good to know I’m not the only insomniac out there!
Yeah, hard not to flip about in the bed tangled up in sweat soaked sheets if one pays much attention to what’s the power players in the world are doing…..OTOH, it’s been a great ride so ending up like the final scene of The Fight Club seems appropriate…..
I just saw the Carotene Conquistador being given a standing ovation by that gaggle of sycophants who are known by the handle GOP. More inducing of vomit than drinking ipecac with a bad hangover.
Nice: “Carotene Conquistador.”
The Mango Messiah has moved on to greater things.
But the Tangerine Tyrant waits in the wings, till the fat lady sings.
it won’t be long now.
And you don’t even have to wait for his self-promotion harangue to begin — that Lee Greenwood intro is per se a norovirus-level emetic. And he claps for himself at the end! Even archnarcissist Obama didn’t do that.
I would’ve been delighted to have a lingering slow-clap disrupt the festivities, perhaps the cynical accolades of Thomas Massie.
Or even Bolo Yeung: “Very good… But brick, not hit BACK!”
Morning, Straitgate!
The Lee Greenwood anthem is enough to turn any sound mind insane after three or four listens. It is that bad. It is the anthem of imbeciles, the hymn of the congenitally stupid.
It is also emblematic of the state of “country” music for the last 40 years: “redneck” cliches, insipid “patriotism”, weepy fake “love” songs, and endless songs about pickup trucks set to generic pop music with some steel guitars added for effect.
Actually, the above describes pretty much all mainstream music since the mid-90s, just add dance beats/”rapping”/downtuned guitar/”Jesus” instead of “baby” lyrics as need per the format.
100 percent, MetalQueen –
I can’t deal with McCountry McMusic especially. It’s as fake and gay as pro wrestling.
If Staten Island secedes from NYC, maybe Nashville — the home of McCountry — can replace it as the fifth borough.
HA! HA! HA! “I can’t deal with McCountry McMusic especially. It’s as fake and gay as pro wrestling.”
…So, very true.
I had hoped that Russia and/or China would send a warship or two to escort any Venezuelan tanker that was carrying oil to China. See if Trumpenstein is crazy enough to steal a tanker from a government that has the capability to fight back.
Hi Eric,
You will like this latest by Leo:
https://leohohmann.substack.com/p/north-american-technate-the-real
One interesting note about Maduro- he was anti zionist for sure. He also was arranging direct payment with China for oil.
The “Dictator” label always makes me roll my eyes, especially with a government that over the last few years had banned pornography, gay marriage and a host of other degenerate acts.
They know we didn’t vote for this. They know. Democracy is dead. We’re not in Kansas anymore.
Acting Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez claimed the U.S. strike was a “Zionist” plot.
Not about drugs, not about oil, Maduro was ousted because he was against the Zionist regime:
Young superstar 51-49 with James Li lays it out clearly, skip to 05:12 mark:
The REAL Reason We Just Invaded Venezuela – Maduro was hostile to the Zionist regime
https://youtu.be/pYK-pNWVWjI?si=jW8p46CcF1OjhYNm&t=291
“Venezuela has been one of the most hostile countries toward Israel in Latin America since Hugo Chávez severed diplomatic ties in 2009 over Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, a move that marked a definitive shift from previously warm relations.
Under Chávez and his successor Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela became a vocal opponent of Israel, aligning with Iran and hosting delegations from Hamas and Hezbollah, while also accusing Israel of genocide and comparing its policies to Nazi conduct.
This hostility intensified with the U.S.-led operation on January 3, 2026, which resulted in Maduro’s capture, followed by Venezuela’s acting leadership accusing the operation of having “Zionist undertones,” reinforcing the country’s long-standing anti-Israel rhetoric”
Eric says – “one of the first figures to publicly congratulate the Orange Man for regime-changing Venezuela was Nathan Rothschild.”
True, I read his tweet yesterday. The Rothschilds created Israel. That implies Trump was congratulated by the family which owns Israel. The other nefarious character who congratulated Trump was Netanyahu. Double confirmation that the Venezuela regime change was a Zionist goal.
Then we had a triple confirmation, Trump congratulated the IDF skill in helping us seize Maduro. IDF soldiers helped US soldiers kidnap a head of a foreign state – and we all know Israelis are experts in capturing people, then torturing them and raping them.
When you see those pictures of prisoners being abused, humiliated in Abu Graib prison in Iraq, those were IDF trained goons, I saw a pic of one with the star of david on this shoulder. Be advised, US police forces are being trained in Israel to treat you like a Palestinian.
(Many times I have said right here on EPautos that Trump is a Rothschild agent, a foreign agent, working for Israel and whatever goals this bankster trillionaires have. How the actual mechanism between the bankers, Israel, and Trump operate, is not exactly known, anyone care to enlighten us?)
No matter who you vote for nothing changes meme
https://i.imgur.com/ehn5yrb.jpeg
Trump is an extremist Israel first conman. I find it funny all these talking heads who keep apologizing for him. Anyone who still defends Trump is a paid shill working for Israel Zionists, or perhaps a dupe who still doesn’t get it, like these Christian Zionists or “conservative” radio hosts?
At what point are these cuckservative radio hosts going to say the truth about antichrist Israel first trumpenstein? What a pathetic nation we live in.
Laura Loomer = Mossad agent
Mark Levin = Mossad agent
Alex Jonestown = deep state shill
Sean Hannity = Zionist shill
DJT = traitor
IMO, based on my research, is this is way more about chinas influence (and to a lesser extent russia). CCP had people in Venezuela, lots. They absolutely wanted the oil, influence and much closer land influence to us.
There is/was also major grift going from Venezuela to other places like cuba, and then lots of our politicians cozying up to cuba, etc….
I do not think this was about oil (for us), although it’s likely a side benefit. Let’s see if our oil companies try to get some of their investments back or not. I don’t think they will spend another dime there unless there is solid gov reforms there. Why would they trust Venezuela again?
Venezuela is a complex situation that requires holding several simultaneous views.
Maduro and Chavez before him were among the most evil dictators around. That does not happen without backing from USA, China, Russia, EU and the money changers. Whether anything improves for the people in Venezuela is open and probably unlikely. But maybe.
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/have-you-seen-of-the-most-frightening
Venezuela was also ground zero for the election rigging. So getting a handle on that should be important, too, if we have any pretense of wanting actual elections.
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/the-electorate-isnt-5050-the-real
However, all that said, the revision of the Monroe Doctrine that supposedly means the USA stops worrying about the Middle East and Africa and Asia is a good thing. It is unfortunate that it also means ratcheting up the involvement of the USA in South America.
But the problem here is the 20th and 21st centuries have seen that any semblance of freedom and republicanism has been thrown into the trash heap.
So we have to be realistic. The world we want desperately is not the world that actually is. You can’t live in a fantasy world with purple skies and unicorns. You have to survive and try to thrive in the world as it really is.
Is it better to have a chaotic currency collapse?
Is it better to hope for oil embargoes, resource shortages?
How willing are you to live with the consequences?
If the people would have listened to Ron Paul 25 years ago this mess would have not exploded. When he was warning us the Dollar default was perhaps still manageable and we could have unwound the wars in ways that could have left fewer political vacuums.
The world is far worse off now than 25 years ago. We’re closer to wheelbarrow currency collapse, total food collapse, total energy collapse. We’ve let them close coal mines and not just decommission but demolish coal-fired power plants leaving no path to spinning them back up.
It’s so adorable that people have some “I’ll just get to know my farmer” and “I have a backup generator” fantasy. The unraveling, once it starts, ends up with the USA looking a lot like Venezuela. There’s 325 million people being fed right now by fewer than 200,000 farmers through about a dozen mega corporations and groceries. The number of “alternative” food options is perhaps nearly a million small farms that comprise at best small single digits of the market volume.
We’re only a few days from totally empty shelves and hundreds of millions of desperate urban dwellers with bare cupboards and warm fridges.
It’s be Walking Dead within a month in the case of the real collapse.
Can’t disagree with you.
I am way pissed about mega corps running the show by getting in bed with Uncle Sam and our grifted politicians. Way too much corruption everywhere, that if not solved quickly with people in chains, we are for sure in big trouble.
Things are already going south in our Venezuelan tar baby under the pinhead Orange Flake:
‘The Department of Justice has retreated from the notion that captured President Nicolas Maduro was the head of an organized drug cartel called Cartel de los Soles. The DOJ now says the term “Cartel de los Soles” is merely descriptive of a “culture of corruption” fueled by the illegal drug trade.
‘This isn’t [mere] semantics: Both the Treasury and State Departments had officially designated the non-existent group as a terrorist organization.
‘The previous indictment [of Maduro] referred to the supposed cartel 32 times, naming Maduro as its chief. The new one only mentions the term twice, and says it’s only descriptive of a “patronage system” and a “culture of corruption” propelled by drug money. That’s consistent with the fact that the DEA’s annual National Drug Threat Assessment has never mentioned any “Cartel de los Soles” in its cataloguing of major traffickers.’
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-doj-admits-venezuelas-cartel-de-los-soles-isnt-actual-organization
Nevertheless, the 25-page indictment — which reads like a Lindsey Graham rant after he’s imbibed a pint of vodka — STILL mentions the ‘Cartel de los Soles’ twice. It’s about as menacing a terrorist organization as the Log Cabin Republicans. /sarc
It goes on to indict Maduro for violating the 1934 National Firearms Act (a law targeted at gangster Al Capone) by possessing machine guns. How many Venezuelan laws has Trump violated? Our megalomaniacal yankee state has jumped the shark. And a corrupt 9/11 judge, ‘Hellerstein’ [of whom more anon], presides over Maduro’s ridiculous drumhead show trail.
Maduro would get a fairer trail in the Congo. Our debauched Hebraic ‘justice’ system offers him only life in prison, or death by oogaboogah. Verdict first, trial later!
Has Melania ever driven a car? The Saudis should lock her up. Precedent has been set.
Excellent summary of the state of the western world. It’s depressing on the one hand, but at the same time a lot more people are noticing the reality of what’s going on.
Thanks, Mister!
I am feeling a lot like I did back in 2020… when so many people were all-in on “COVID.”
Your Keanu Reeves meme above is perfect.
Our humiliation is complete under the Trump Vichy government:
“‘Stephen Miller,’ a top aide to President Trump, asserted on Monday that Greenland rightfully belonged to the United States and that the Trump administration could seize the semiautonomous Danish territory if it wanted.
“Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland,” ‘Miller’ told ‘Jake Tapper,’ the CNN host.
‘“We live in a world, in the real world, ‘Jake,’ that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”
“The United States of America is running Venezuela,” ‘Miller’ said, dismissing international treaties enshrining a nation’s right to independence and sovereignty as “international niceties.” — NYT
https://archive.ph/IrwQA#selection-787.0-791.29
On display here is Hebrew amorality, going back to Moses as he plotted to invade and steal Canaan from its rightful owners. It is a horror like unto the Bolshevik revolution that these vicious, conniving killers — who have just leveled a city of 2.3 million, including its schools and hospitals — now run the US fedgov under the pinhead Mango Messiah.
The entire post-WW II structure of international law now lies in smoldering ruins, thanks to depraved Hofjuden like ‘Miller.’ Meanwhile his dual-citizen wife eggs on Trump to take Greenland, the same way little Israel is stealing Gaza and the West Bank.
Disaster has befallen us. Within a decade, the civilized world — excluding the US and little Shitrahell — will divorce itself from the US dollar. Not being able to buy ‘stuff’ with worthless long green will send US living standards tumbling in a manner analogous to the 1930s, when Americans made do, did without, or just withdrew from the cash economy.
The US did not make it to its 250th birthday. Hostile enemy aliens hijacked it from within. Now we live under a sordid occupation regime. When will their domestic ‘terrorism’ start again, to stampede us in the desired direction? Did you think those flash-bangs in the night only happen in sad-sack places like Ukraine and Gaza and Venezuela? Think again. 🙁
Jim, you’ll know that the takeover of Greenland is imminent when its name on U.S. maps is changed to “Americaland” and from what Stephen Miller said this might be sooner than you think.
And the Atlantic Ocean becomes the American Ocean.
Perhaps he’ll call it Red-White-and-Blue-Land.
“Might makes right” coming from an ugly, prematurely bald little hebe dweeb like “Stephen Miller” is symbolic of what this excuse for a country has fallen to. Is it any coincidence that “Stephen Miller” has morphed into a dead ringer for Trump’s “mentor” Roy Coh(e)n. I would not be the least bit surprised if “Katie Miller” is actually his “beard” and he is running a homosexual pedophile blackmail ring. He isn’t even a legitimate member (confirm by the Senate) of the Orange Turd’s administration. He looks like a slug, and trails slime in his path like a slug. A disgusting creature.
John Carpenter or Wes Craven could not imagine a horror movie this terrifying.
Righteous, MetalQueen!
I agree completely with your deftly expressed sentiments. I tire of these little creeps and await their day of comeuppance.
Thought experiment. By what right does Denmark have to call Greenland their colony? How is Trumpster saying nevermind that, it’s ours now any less authentic?
You think it’s bad now? Things can always get worse.
Technically it hasn’t been a colony since 1953.
In 1814 the kingdoms of Norway & Denmark split, and Greenland went with Denmark.
At some point in the 17th century Dano-Norwegian (it was the same country at that time) explorers re-colonized, after they realized the original one had died out, and have had a continuous presence ever since.
I don’t think the Eskimos were really consulted.
Practically speaking Greenland has a lot more strategic importance to North America than Europe. It’s right under the ICBM tracks from Russia’s Kola installations, Murmansk, their Northern Fleet base and between the nuke plant, geothermal and hydro supplies something like 25% of the power for Norway, Finland and Russia. Honestly, as bad as Trumpster and Bibi are is it materially better if NATO and the EU stand as the balance of power in the Arctic Circle?
Out of all the Trump foreign policy shenanigans, the Greenland bit is by far the least stupid.
Note that I didn’t say it was a good idea. But there are actual reasons why we might want it, even though it isn’t ours and the people who live there seem to pretty much like it the way it is.
The idea is floating around that they could persuade Greenland to vote to become a vassal by offering the residents $1 million each. That would “only” cost $50 billion, which the Joint Chiefs could probably rummage from the cushions in the office couches. They get a $1 trillion annual cash infusion from the tax mules and if we walk away from NATO it could easily be justified as moving budget line items around in a strategic move.
‘Just look at what we elected.’ — eric
Once again an old maxim is proven axiomatically true: no matter who you vote for, you get John McCain.
Even before neocon Hebrews took over the US fedgov, we woke up on 25 October 1983 to learn that Reagan had invaded Grenada to regime change it. Same thing under ‘more humble foreign policy’ G.W. Bush: ‘we’ invaded Afghanistan before his first year was over. And now — play it again, Sam — the Orange Emperor has raided Venezuela.
“Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.” — Auric Goldfinger. What part of “the party of Lincoln” did we not understand? The R-party was founded on the annihilation of state sovereignty. It cannot be fixed or reformed — only destroyed.
Never can the traitor-ridden R-party be a vehicle for restoring our freedom. Flush it down the toilet and start over, beginning this November. Already dozens of cowardly R-party rats are fleeing their sinking ship. Encourage the rest to leave, since getting sidelined in the minority next year will be no fun at all. 🙂
I voted for Trump three times – the last time somewhat reluctantly. Originally, I had planned not to vote for him, but his behavior at Butler led me to believe that he had the courage that many leaders lacked and perhaps had learned something during his four years in the wilderness.
I repent. I was wrong. He learned nothing. It was all a show. And now we are stuck for another three years with a warmongering, lying showman. He has surrounded himself with shysters of the worst kind. Rubio, Huckabee, Hegseth, Miller, etc. They are all lying propagandists. They know that to survive in a Trump administration they must kiss his behind, which they do with every interview and Twitter tweet. Ditto with most of the useless R Congress.
They can’t be bothered to fix the medical grifting system, so now my “insurance” costs $27K a year. They can’t be bothered to increase the deportation rate so we have some hope of deporting most of those who illegally entered the country during the last four years. They won’t end the H1B program that replaces smart Americans with cheaper Indians. And they won’t stop the attacks. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon, Nigeria, Somalia, and now Venezuela have been attacked using US weapons, money and/or troops during the last year. And we are told that Trump is the “Peace President”.
I am finished with voting. It doesn’t work.
Sorry, how could I forget to add Russia to the list of warmonger shame.
Sadly, Howard, you were fooled again. With the benefit of hindsight, please take a look back at the footage of Butler PA and you will notice how absolutely FAKE it looks. It was STAGED to make (1) convince MAGA the “deep state” was out to get the Orange Turd” and (2) make him look to the rubes Caesar like heroic. My first reaction to it was total psyop – Iwo Jima pose, “fight, fight, fight”, even the “DEI” fat lady Secret Service agents (probably the office assistants, excited to take a break from processing background checks) and let’s no even get into the fake bullet photo and his miraculous healing ear.
Admitting you were wrong is the first step towards making things right to kudos to your awakening.
And remember the “Ledeen Doctrine” that Johan Goldberg attributed to fellow NeoCon Michael Ledeen circa 2005,
“Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.”
BTW, driving around Florida the past week or so I’ve seen several billboards such as the one near the Tampa airport stating, “If you think turbulence is distressing, try wearing a Jewish star”. Not to mention the teevee ads that have been popping up claiming “woe is us Jews”.
I think she’s gettin’ ready to blow…
That’s just nutz. Those ads, are like, super fookin’ weird. Best I can put it at the moment is: as a Midwesterner, they offend my sensibilities.
…Do they need a whaambulance, too?
[If I press ‘Post Comment’ is my laptop battery gonna electrocute me?]
Wait until those ads start popping up on your cars touchscream.
Or all the “epidemic of Jewish hate” adds that have been running during NFL games. Talk about brazen attempts to brainwash Joe Blow.
That’s like your wife cheating on you and then claiming you’re a woman-hating “misogynist” for taking exception to her immoral and disrespectful behavior. Also known as gaslighting.
Paraphrasing Tom Woods, no matter who you vote for, you always end up with John McCain.
Did yall see the effeminate warmonger Lindsey Graham on Air Force One, next to Trump? Graham was practically having a big-O while Trump was fielding questions. That pretty much summed up the whole episode.
I’m just going to write him in from now on. Every election. Every federal office.
McCain. Not Graham.