The Trump Presidency - Part 2

The Truman Doctrine was designed to avoid European states falling to Communism when they were struggling to rebuild after the War. It was far from altruistic. If US defence spending protects and rebuilds Europe, then the US has hundreds of millions of potential customers buying American goods and products.
Yes, but once Europe recovered the policy stood in place. Continuing to pay so much to defend Europe after the collapse of the USSR didn't make a lot of sense.

Now that Russia it's attacking neighbors it makes some sense, but Europe is rich enough to defend itself now, and Russia isn't as militarily capable as the USSR.

So many Americans feel the money Europe would spend on defense is instead used to provide social services, many of them ones Americans don't have.
 
Yes, but once Europe recovered the policy stood in place. Continuing to pay so much to defend Europe after the collapse of the USSR didn't make a lot of sense.

Now that Russia it's attacking neighbors it makes some sense, but Europe is rich enough to defend itself now, and Russia isn't as militarily capable as the USSR.

So many Americans feel the money Europe would spend on defense is instead used to provide social services, many of them ones Americans don't have.
Well as you say, Europe will have to do so. I remember 20 years ago the Eurosceptics here were up in arms about a EU army being proposed, let alone created. But the only way Europe will be able to defend itself is through common defence and presumably some sort of joint military force which is contirbuted to by all (either under a NATO branding or otherwise). That will all cost a lot more money. Tens of billions of taxes in the UK alone, just to start rebuilding our armed forces.
 
Does the First Amendment allow that?
The first amendment is exactly that - an amendment. It really means nothing. And if you disagree then people have got the right to bear Arms because you're trying to go after their freedom or something.
 
Nothing has changed with NY pricing, he just wanted to call himself something.

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Read the data I posted.
Those data make no sense whatsoever to me.

Here is another graph that is more clear:



Biden is not on there, but you see the republican presidents are increasing the deficit, the democrats decreasing it.

It is worth noting here that Obama inherited the great recession from Bush and Biden the pandemic from Trump.
 
Those data make no sense whatsoever to me.

Here is another graph that is more clear:



Biden is not on there, but you see the republican presidents are increasing the deficit, the democrats decreasing it.

It is worth noting here that Obama inherited the great recession from Bush and Biden the pandemic from Trump.

Isn't there some sort of theory on this? 2 santa's or some such.
 
I guess avoid most things American. Although that's easier said than done.

Aye. Looks that way. Starting with the big guns as whilst losing my measly contributions won't make any difference to them, at least I'll know I'm not funding those rat feckers that enabled this disgusting mess.

Bring on the day this forum removes Twitter. Or allows individual users to disable embedding of tweets.
 
Cut programs > feed conspiracies as reason for cutting programs > convince enough ignorant people conspiracies are true > transfer government cuts to tax breaks and Elon grants.

It's already happened, if you read any comment thread on say Facebook the reasoning they back up cutting this "waste" is the conspiracy he fed them all the while allowing the cuts to programs happen.

Elon Musk like Superman swooping into save the day.
 
Aye. Looks that way. Starting with the big guns as whilst losing my measly contributions won't make any difference to them, at least I'll know I'm not funding those rat feckers that enabled this disgusting mess.

Bring on the day this forum removes Twitter. Or allows individual users to disable embedding of tweets.
How are you going to use your computer?

Windows/MAC's are American, Linux is a version of Unix which is American, tyhen tyhere's the other software ....
 
Well, can't say they didn't warn us.
A former KGB agent named Yuri Alexandrovich Bezmenov claimed in 1984 that Russia has a long-term goal of ideologically subverting the U.S. He described the process as “a great brainwashing” that has four basic stages. The first stage, he said, is called “demoralization,” which would take about 20 years to achieve.

https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/
 
You can tell Trump doesn't like Zelenskyy criticising him. I think he's still bitter over getting impeached in 2019, as well as the Biden/Ukraine stuff not helping him win the 2020 election
 
You can tell Trump doesn't like Zelenskyy criticising him. I think he's still bitter over getting impeached in 2019, as well as the Biden/Ukraine stuff not helping him win the 2020 election
Trump doesn't like anyone criticising or disagreeing with him