[Youngian]

Trump's on the ropes now, Zack Churchill is on manoeuvres.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

He does Tweet some bollocks, don't he?

[The Weeping Angel]

Trump's on the ropes now, Zack Churchill is on manoeuvres.

Here he is appeasing Trump.

[Bones McCoy]

[Boiler]

Polanski, like Farage, reminds me of this:

"For every complex problem there is a simple solution, which is invariably wrong."

A lot of people are going to fall for his claptrap, just as they are for Farage's.

[Youngian]

Zack leads a party not only of pacifists and peaceniks but hard left arrivals who are keener on military force as long as its aimed at the West.
What direction does Polanski's hard ball rhetoric take him next?

Apologies to Nigel Farage for not taking the issue of a European army seriously ten years ago. I do now and sooner the better that we have one.

[davidjay]

"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

Bertrand Russell

[Abernathy]

The problem seems to be Trump's dogmatic insistence that USA ownership of Greenland is essential for the security of the USA. Not the existing treaty that the USA has with Denmark/Greenland that permits the USA to station as many military personnel and/or defensive weaponry there as it likes, any time it likes, but ownership.

It is clearly absolute bollocks. American ownership of the territory is very obviously quite unnecessary for the USA to be able to address or realise whatever security concerns it may have.

Nobody seems to have challenged Trump to explain the reasoning behind his insistence that only ownership will do.

A view is that Trump has an eye on Greenland's reserves of oil and/or rare earth minerals - as he patently has in relation to Ukraine, Venezuela, and even Gaza.

But is the reason that Trump has not been challenged to explain the reasoning behind his insistence on ownership for national security reasons that there is no reasoning beyond that of avarice?

[Andy McDandy]

"The gangster mentality: want, take."

Henry "Goodfellas" Hill.

I guess he thinks that leases can end, treaties can be broken. But ownership lasts forever.

[Bones McCoy]

It's rarely American ownership when secured.
What we see is "Trump Organisation" ownershhip.

I forget the details of that gold plated Qatari airliner.
He muttered something about "putting it in his presidential library".

[Boiler]

Dare anybody question King Donald? He bypasses Congress, he is surrounded by sycophants and the Democrats are fucking useless twats with no message.

Of course he doesn't need to own Greenland, but nobody dare say 'no' to him now. It's all about 'deals' and wealth - all this oaf of limited intellect understands. It's a distraction from Epstein too.

Where's a von Stauffenberg 2.0 when you need him/her?

[Boiler]

I forget the details of that gold plated Qatari airliner.
He muttered something about "putting it in his presidential library".

I can't imagine a Trump presidential library being anything more than some cloth books* and some colouring books.

*Are they still a thing?

[Youngian]

Trump hasn't ruled out military action against our military forces over Greenland. The last POTUS to declare war on Blighty was James Madison in 1812 who fled Washington when military forces sailed down the Potomac from Canada. The soldiers weren't complete barbarians as they drank the White House's winery and booze reserves dry before torching it to the ground. Makes you proud to be British.

[Boiler]

Earlier, in the car I heard Stephen Miller bellyaching that Europe has had its defences subsidised by the American taxpayer - and we know that central to the average American's thinking is "we don't want our tax dollars to go to anyone but us" - and thus somehow, it has a right to buy Greenland.

Miller is an even more dangerous cunt than Trump.

Maybe the time has come to form that European Army that the Brexiters were so shit-scared of.

[davidjay]

Earlier, in the car I heard Stephen Miller bellyaching that Europe has had its defences subsidised by the American taxpayer - and we know that central to the average American's thinking is "we don't want our tax dollars to go to anyone but us" - and thus somehow, it has a right to buy Greenland.

Miller is an even more dangerous cunt than Trump.

Maybe the time has come to form that European Army that the Brexiters were so shit-scared of.

The Brexiters would be on the other side. They have a lot of fighting age males.

[Boiler]

It was certainly interesting listening to the one o'clock news on Radio 4 earlier as it covered this latest bollocks extensively; there's even suggestions of Trump wanting to add states to America as his legacy, like Polk.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002q285

[Bones McCoy]

[Youngian]

Earlier, in the car I heard Stephen Miller bellyaching that Europe has had its defences subsidised by the American taxpayer - and we know that central to the average American's thinking is "we don't want our tax dollars to go to anyone but us" - and thus somehow, it has a right to buy Greenland.

Miller is an even more dangerous cunt than Trump.

Maybe the time has come to form that European Army that the Brexiters were so shit-scared of.

US doesn't maintain a post Cold War presence in Europe to protect Belguim or Germany but to give them reach into the Middle East, Africa and beyond. Serious US geopolitical strategists would be horrified to see US bases removed. But if Mr tough guy Miller wants to withdraw from Fylingdales, Rammstein and Lakenheath then let's not stand in his way.