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Re: President Trump 2.0
Probably the best explanation of the Trump 'modus operandi' I've ever read.
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Today, 10:01
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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Probably the best explanation of the Trump 'modus operandi' I've ever read.
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Agreed. Save, perhaps, for more Epstein revelations.
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Today, 10:07
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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Agreed. Save, perhaps, for more Epstein revelations.
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If that occurs then plenty of other countries left to play with. Hasn't Cuba moved up his hit list?
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Today, 10:13
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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If that occurs then plenty of other countries left to play with. Hasn't Cuba moved up his hit list?
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Where did you get that from, Andrew? Cuba isn't even a midge in Trump's ear and he has the country totally strait-jacketed, imo.
I'd like to know what Vance is doing in the background.
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Re: President Trump 2.0
Cuba was last week, this week he's thrown another dart at the map on the wall . . . and The Maldives are gonna get it now 
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Where did you get that from, Andrew? Cuba isn't even a midge in Trump's ear and he has the country totally strait-jacketed, imo.
I'd like to know what Vance is doing in the background.
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Quite a few articles about it out there. This one is from the The Telegraph's sister publication, Politico.
https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/f...-trumps-radar/
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Cuba was last week, this week he's thrown another dart at the map on the wall . . . and The Maldives are gonna get it now |
Lol, that's probably right - he probably previously missed the dartboard and hit 'Greenland' on the White House globe instead!
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Re: President Trump 2.0
@1Andrew1@
I like the “sister journal” attribution to the Torygraph. Has the Springer deal been approved?
I still maintain my “midge” point. The journos like to set hares running. There’s a 2025 Military Cooperation Agreement between Russia and Cuba that might come into play, but no kmutual defence treaty.
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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Originally Posted by Carth
Probably the best explanation of the Trump 'modus operandi' I've ever read.
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A lot of words to explain how TACO works.
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Today, 14:46
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Re: President Trump 2.0
I always thought Taco was some kind of Mexican sandwich 
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Re: President Trump 2.0
Trump Always Chickens Out
HTH 
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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The handy thing with Trump is that he doesn't really need an off-ramp.
It's possible he gets bored, declares victory and moves on. His supporters will celebrate and chalk it up to another brilliant move by Trump, he won't care and repeatedly say he achieved all his objectives, and the rest of the world will go along with it because it's a better outcome for all concerned.
It's like the Greenland thing. We're just weeks past the US bordering threatening to invade an ally, a European nation, to appease Trump's ego. Then he sort of gave up, and we all just went 'whatever' and moved on.
You have to treat him like a petulant child prone to the worst temper tantrums. One time, he says he'll invade allies, the next he starts a war with Iran, the next time he might try to ban elections he doesn't like, but each time you have to try and ride it out, knowing he'll get bored and move on.
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Also, knows better than anyone else…
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...an-blocking-it
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Surely this would have been anticipated by Washington when it decided to attack Iran?
US military planners have long warned that Iran could try to close the strait in the event of a conflict, but the Trump administration appears to have failed to anticipate such a response.
While some analysts had bet Iran would keep the strait open to ensure export of its own oil, the existential threat to Tehran’s clerical regime has triggered a far harsher response. That in turn has caught Washington out, including the energy secretary, Chris Wright, who said on Thursday that the US navy was not yet ready to carry out a naval escort operation.
“It’ll happen relatively soon, but it can’t happen now,” Wright said – after earlier wrongly suggesting that an escort had already taken place. “We’re simply not ready.” He added that “all of our military assets right now are focused on destroying” Iran’s military resources.
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Pity they didn’t focus on the minelayers in the first attacks, amongst other strategic targets…
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Today, 15:15
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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I still prefer him instead of the alternative, Kamala Harris. 
This no war thing was forced upon him by a religious hatred of Israel. Rinse and repeat anybody? |
No way I would ever vote for her. Pity about the alternative. She should have never nominated.
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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Pity they didn’t focus on the minelayers in the first attacks, amongst other strategic targets…
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When you sack all the experts and replace them with no-knowledge political sycophants, this is what you are left with.
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Re: President Trump 2.0
In today’s FT
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Re: President Trump 2.0
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It may have been a cunning plan to get the Straits closed so that USA could cash in on the elevated oil price.
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