Trump's arrogance
He's setting himself up here as God.
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He's setting himself that I have the power of life and death. I will decide whether Iran is deserving of complete
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destruction or whether they're going to have this wonderful future that I will allow in my graciousness.
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I promise you that's the way it came across to most everybody in that room.
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And how would it not? When when you sit there and you set yourself up above the rule of law, above the US Constitution,
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above any kind of morality, above the even the UN Security Council, above everything and everybody, individual countries, whatever you name
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it, he alone, not even not even the Congress, not even his cabinet, not even anyone.
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I will decide. I have a big decision, said he, about whether I'm going to destroy Iran. And if he goes down that
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path, then that is as illegal, immoral, and unethical as it can get.
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There is no law on the planet whereby the leader of any country can
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just decide on his own that the civilians and the citizens of another country are deserving of death because he says so.
I think Donald Trump is a bully
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who respects only two kinds of people or nations. One is the powerful and he
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faces in the United States a very powerful Zionist lobby which remains
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committed to the destruction of Iran. And he is enthralled to that lobby to
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donors from that lobby who take their cues their direction uh from the fascist
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government in Israel. And the second kind of person he respects is those who
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can blackmail him and the Israelis apparently have the ability to do that.
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The Epstein files are one of the reasons, several reasons that Mike Johnson, the
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speaker of the house, prematurely adjourned the house until after the
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midterm elections. The other reason was that it looked very much as though Thomas Massiey's introduction of a
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bill of impeachment with eight counts of impeachment against secretary of
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defense self-started secretary of wars was going to pass. But the Epstein
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trials were part of this. So were several other issues. And so you
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can see that the speaker of the house who probably is the least
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independent such person in our history is nonetheless aware of that
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Trump's control of the Republican slight majority in the House and the
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larger majority in the Senate is slipping away. So what will Donald Trump do? What
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does he do when confronted with an an intolerable reality that he chooses to
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deny? There's lots of evidence that he's capable of a vote fast and
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abandoning the threats that he made. But there's also evidence that he will
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carry out the threats. Look at the look at the decapitation of Venezuela,
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the invasion of that. Look at the wars, two wars begun by Trump against
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Iran in partnership with Israel. One last year in June, one this year in
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February 28th. So I can't rule out the possibility. What I will say is I think
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there will be enormous opposition to this from the US military.
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whether it's sufficient to produce a sit-down strike in
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effect passive resistance or mutiny of some sort or stimulated coup d'eta I do not
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know the US military despite Pete Hegseth's efforts to politicize it and
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turn it into an arm of white nationalism, Christian nationalism,
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remains deeply indoctrinated in constitutionalism and dedicated to the notion that
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illegal orders must be resisted. So I don't know what would happen, but I don't think you can
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rule out the possibility that Donald Trump's threats are both sincere
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and intended to be implemented.
the smart thing for the Ukrainians to do
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would be to cut a deal because that deal would not be a great deal. We've said that all along, but that deal would be
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better than continuing the war. And that's exactly what Julia Mandel is saying in this new article that
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she's written. But the problem is that you can't convince Zelensky of that logic. number one because he's so
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heavily invested in the war at this point in time and you can't convince Mark Rute and the other European leaders
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in places like Germany, France and Britain at this point in time. So the war just goes on and the situation as
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Mendele points out just gets worse and worse for Ukraine.
- www.theamericanconservative.com - For Ukrainians, a Bad Peace Beats a Worsening War
- www.youtube.com @JohnMearsheimer
you go back to 1914. You go back to 1940 and say, was it in anybody's interest? Why did we put that embargo on Japan?
All of this is warp and woof of the same kind of fabric that the last 150 years have produced periodically with dramatic
dramatic recurrence. And we're about at that point again, I think. Is it that the human race has to kill itself in
massive numbers periodically and some insane power has to lead the way? We are marching down a road that's leading us
to regional and then possibly global conflict. And we're going to produce the depression in the process that will fuel
everyone wanting to participate in it if for no other reason than to discharge their debt which is in colossal proportions right now both private
commercial and war is the best tool for getting rid of that debt or at least shifting it.
at that moment
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foreign secretary Lee Truss and she told him that Britain's aim was for the war continue for as long as possible to
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bleed out the Russians
the role of Radosław (Radek) Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister then, at an early point then the gap and once again now he
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was the one for example who insisted along with Carl Bildt on the insertion of art article 42.7
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in Lisbon treaty, which is an equivalent sort of soft equivalent of NATO's article 5, which in other words;
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It transformed the European Union from a purely economic societal regulatory body
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into a quasi military alliance
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the historical demons have been
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unleashed and there's no force in the European elite which are willing to tame them. The only force who's trying to
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calm them down a little bit paradoxically is a certain Donald J.
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Trump, but who you know has a occasional moments of remarkable
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acuity and understands uh what's going on.
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after the end of the cold war we should have moved to a post American Europe not anti-American by any means we should have worked with
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the United States United States should have focused on its own national interests we then build a new commonwealth of community from Lisbon to
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Vladivosto we failed brilliant a brilliant idea I would enthusiastically support because it's not anti- anyone. It's just a
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recognition of new realities in the aftermath of the Cold War and it's time for a new and better and stronger future.
ultimately the entire region [Middle East] would disintegrate. All of
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these artificial constructs we call states would collapse. That's where we are. And by the way, one of the artificial states that's on the verge of
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collapse is Israel. Now, how far along is it versus the others we're discussing? Who knows? But internally, that society is in a lot of trouble.
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They're in a lot of trouble regionally.
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So everything that came out of the first world war and people should remember this because all of this goes back a hundred years to Versailles,
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everything that was created during that war has taken this long to finally unravel.
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And one can go back and argue at the time that what we were creating was never sustainable to begin with. But it
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was artificially sustained first by the British and then by ourselves because of the oil. Well, we've lost control of
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everything and the whole region is descending into chaos. That's where it is. I don't know what you do to fix it. I don't think you can at this
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point. You're going to have to live with fragmentation and chaos. The unfortunate consequences though of the energy crisis for the world are profound.
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I see
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no evidence for any Russian interest in attacking NATO. I never have. uh that that vanished a long time ago and all
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these statements have no basis in fact that well Putin you know who is sort of characterized as this modern day Stalin
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wants to rebuild the Soviet empire nothing could be further from the truth has no interest in that at all he's very much a a student of Sultzen who made it
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clear to everyone that the last thing Russians needed uh were large numbers of nonRussians under their government
I have a tape on my site of him [Zelensky] as a comedian standing on stage
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before president making jokes about confiscating assets from Jews and Russians.
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He's the same as George Soros.
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He married a Christian girl. His kids are are baptized and he pretended to be Christian.
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So he was part of the neo-Nazi operations.
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Suddenly he becomes president. Oh, I'm Jewish.
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That's basically so they can't say, "Oh, well he how could I be a neo-Nazi if I was Jewish?" I've got him on stage making jokes about
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taking assets from Jews. The same as Soros. You can look at a 60-minute interview. They asked him. He was doing the same thing. Don't you feel bad? No.
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That's what I had to do.
the second time I've done a
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presentation in front of the security council members. my previous one, the US delegation
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exhibited overt hostility towards Russia and anybody speaking on behalf of Russia.
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You know, you'd get, they'd get such things as simply saying, "I'd like to thank the briefers." Don't even mention the briefers.
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That was then this representative yesterday, it wasn't Mike Waltz, so it's one of his deputies who
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participated, but he’s remark it was sort of bizarre. I see he's consiliatory.
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He was dealing with the war in Ukraine between the war between Russia and Ukraine like he was an
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outside observer like somebody standing is watching a house on fire commenting oh look at that that's going
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up without admitting that they're the damn arsonists that set the place on fire. Okay. so it was much less
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confrontational and I said to the, you know the, Russian ambassador Nenzia. I said to him afterwards, I said was I
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hallucinating or is the United States have you seen a definite change in its tone and approach to you
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and he goes oh yeah know they've changed. I thought now the ones that haven't
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changed were the Europeans, Denmark, Latia,
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France and Greece. They were as hostile as you could be. I mean, insulting.
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Particularly the guy from Denmark.
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The Europeans are going to
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pursue this hostile, not just attitude, but hostile actions against Russia because they don't fear the consequences.
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And you know, when you got someone like Kellogg out there saying, no they're
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just saber rattling, they're not going to really use nukes then you go ahead and make calculations that you can take military action without facing
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a nuclear response and then when the nuclear response comes is too late.
