On the Nature of Things

Posted: **09 Mar 2025 08:28**

The international pundits I listen to say nobody trusts the US but they trust the other countries less. They do not want to trade for ruble or bhat or rial.

Posted: **09 Mar 2025 16:17**

noddy wrote: ↑09 Mar 2025 06:55
noddy wrote: ↑09 Mar 2025 03:53 you have almost worked it out.

China isnt attacking anyone , its strutting its stuff the way America does, cruising battleships past smaller countries that cant do anything about it, showing them who is the real big dick in the region.

Why is this happening ? Its because their is no west anymore, so they dont have to fear retaliation from the USA or Europe about doing this kind of thing - the west has been on deaths door for a while, the Ukrainian thing exposed its frailty and now Trump has started burying the coffin.

The only global leaders who are threatning western countries with aggression are Trump (Canada, Denmark) and Putin (Western Europe) , the only countries which feel safer from a Trump presidency are Russia and Israel.

Everyone else is busy recalibrating away from America as fast as they possibly can - its going to be interesting.

You wanted America first, America alone, you have it. be happy.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics ... e-reports/

Do they have the budget for maneuvers?

The purpose of NATO is to defend against the Soviet Union when it was the greatest threat to the free world. Trump has been telling Europe "Grass Gas or Ass no one ride for free" since he first became president.

Somehow Europe took that to mean they should invite immigrants in to replace their indigenous population and be more Stalinist in their governance.

The US has a 36 Trillion dollar debt There is no more money to pay for Europe to stay in mommy's basement. The GDP of the EU is $29 Trillion dollars. Larger than the US. Yet somehow even though they claim that Russian is the biggest Existential threat to Europe, Europe cannot not find the money to pay their own defense, eight years after they were first told they need to find it. Despite years of notice from Trump, they want America to pay for it in treasure and lives
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/0 ... ition-are/

European Warmongers Lack Troops, Air Defenses and Ammunition, Are Only Equipped To Fight for a Few Weeks – Rearming These Nations Will Take Years

The CCP is the biggest existential threat to the world. It is more important to it leadership to hide that they killed 400 million of their own people in the COVID epidemic and 20 million else where than to lose face by admitting fault. The CCP is unstable as it means of governance IE "Father XI knows best" is a 100% loser over time. When it goes down Xi's rationalization is "IF we are going down we are going to bring the rest of the world down with us to level the playing field." That is what happened with COVID.

Yet, if that isn't bad enough, European and American neocons want to destabilize Russia in the same way.

What's more Despite the fact that there is lots of Natural Gas under Europe the EU nations are against fracking for it. Are against using coal are against (outside of France) nuclear power. Chinese manufactured Solar is a failure in Germany(what a shocker) Trump warned against the EU depending on Russian gas. In fact the US has fought several wars in the Middle East to make a natural gas pipeline through Syria to Europe.
ENOUGH ALREADY. Europe is claiming, to spite Trump, it is going to do what Trump told them they need to do for the US to stay in NATO. Ironic that. So how about less outrage and more do?
EUROPE: OH MOTHER!!! IF YOU MAKE US GET OUT OF THE BASEMENT WE ARE GOING TO GET A HIGH PAYING JOB AND NEVER EVER EVER EVER SPEAK TO YOU AGAIN!&@!^#^!!

UNITED STATES: "ok"

I watched a report make an informal opinion poll in Greenland over whether or not to become part of the US. of the people that responded the European were 100% against it over half of the native Americans were for it, and the rest were for Greenland being independent. That means something.

Posted: **10 Mar 2025 00:36**

the argument was always that being in control of, and at the centre of, world trade and world millitary industrial complex, you made more money than it cost you.

we will find out soon enough if being trade isolated with tariffs and more irrelevant to the world actually makes the lifestyle for the average american better.

I await your news of massive tax cuts and lower costs of living.

im kinda jealous, least you arent doing status quo - even if i suspect that its not going to work out as simply as "we saved 1 gazillion dollars"

Posted: **10 Mar 2025 03:50**

noddy wrote: ↑10 Mar 2025 00:36 the argument was always that being in control of, and at the centre of, world trade and world millitary industrial complex, you made more money than it cost you.

we will find out soon enough if being trade isolated with tariffs and more irrelevant to the world actually makes the lifestyle for the average american better.

I await your news of massive tax cuts and lower costs of living.

im kinda jealous, least you arent doing status quo - even if i suspect that its not going to work out as simply as "we saved 1 gazillion dollars"

The problem with your idea that America makes a lot of money from being the world's policeman is that whatever money is made goes into the pocket of the top one percent. The same people who thought sending our manufacturing capability to China was a great idea. And for them it was a river of money. Then the money gets re-invested else where outside of the US. As world policeman we resign.

We have allies that keep up their end of the bargain and we'll will work with them. Just no longer the so called adult children living in the basement. Things will be rough for a while But things were going to hell to begin with.

What non Americans do not get about most Americans is the orders of our priorities. God/Family Friends neighbors state country Then the rest of the world. We don't like to see anyone suffer any where in the world and are quite generous in that respect. During WWI Herbert Hoover organized Charitable efforts to get food to Europe's war torn starving masses. Not Government doing it , but Americans personally sending food, until the US entered the war.

Here are some other American projects:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperi ... reign-aid/

United States Foreign Aid

Hoover Institution Children greet the arrival of American corn in Vasilievka, Russia, Credit: Hoover Institution
October 22, 1914
Herbert Hoover creates the Commission for the Relief of Belgium (CRB) to organize relief efforts to combat a severe food shortage in German-occupied Belgium and Northern France during World War I.

The CRB will spend $80 million and dispense two billion pounds of grain and other food in the first year. The Commission will disband at the end of the war.

April 6, 1917
President Woodrow Wilson appoints Herbert Hoover as the head of the U.S. Food Administration, an organization providing food for the United States Army and its allies. In this position, Hoover will organize and send food shipments to the millions of starving people affected by World War I.

1921 - 1923
The American Relief Administration (formerly the U.S. Food Administration) sends rations of white bread, corn grits, rice, milk, cocoa, and sugar to Russia, where civil war and a severe drought have caused a widespread famine that killed five million Russian and Soviet citizens.

March 11, 1941
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act. The program provides aid to countries that have been victims of war, beginning with Britain and China. Supplies such as weapons, clothes, vehicles, and food totaling around $50 billion ship to U.S. allies.

November 9, 1943
Spearheaded by the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China, 44 nations form the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) to provide relief in war-torn countries.

1946
The UNRRA distributes $4.5 billion of food and supplies to Europe, where World War II had shattered economies.

March 12, 1947
In a message to Congress, President Harry Truman presents what will become known as the Truman Doctrine. In it, he pledges U.S. support for any country threatened by communism. Following Truman's speech, Congress approves $400 million in military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey.

Many historians will consider this the start of the Cold War.

June 5, 1947
Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlines what will become known as the Marshall Plan, a post-World War II initiative to send $13 billion to help boost recovery and reconstruction in Europe.

By the end of the program in 1953, most participating countries' economies will be more robust than they were prior to the war.

June 28, 1948
President Truman approves a plan to fly food and gas in to West Berlin after the Soviets cut all surface traffic to the area. Over the 11 months, until the blockage is lifted on May 12, 1949, the U.S. will provide over two million tons of supplies. The effort is known as the Berlin Airlift.

June 1951
The United States sends grain to India, where floods, earthquakes and locust plagues cause India's harvest to go awry, and a severe famine to take over.

March 1, 1961
President John F. Kennedy announces the Peace Corps as a challenge for Americans "to serve their country in the cause of peace by living and working in developing countries."

In the following decades, the Peace Corps will expand, sending more than 200,000 Americans to 139 countries.

September 4, 1961
The Foreign Assistance Act is approved. The Act administers the United States economic assistance programs, separating military and non-military aid.

November 3, 1961
President Kennedy establishes the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), an agency that organizes United States foreign aid around the world.

In the years to come the USAID will provide humanitarian assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East.

Now imagine how Americans feel now that it has come out that the Agency that they believed was providing humanitarian aid for the rest of the world in their name was mostly just a scam?

So "the world" "will NEVER EVER EVER EVER TALK TO US AGAIN." OK...

Posted: **10 Mar 2025 04:19**

oh, so aswell as gutting the social services, we are in for a replacement of the traitorous 1%.

how very mao

Posted: **10 Mar 2025 13:07**

noddy wrote: ↑10 Mar 2025 04:19 oh, so aswell as gutting the social services, we are in for a replacement of the traitorous 1%.

how very mao

Sure I am all for ending social services for the 1%. It is called Oligarchy.

But lets review

1) Trump has not declared that he was pulling the US out of NATO. Much less likely now that Europe has decided it was going to spend more on its self defense and is not going to go directly to war with Putin like Trump has been telling them to do for 8 years and every president for the last 20 years has been telling them outside of the president that was not there Joe Biden.
2)Time is not on Ukraine's side. It simply does not have the man power left to remove Russian troops from its territory and no one else, not even Europe, was ever going to do that for them.
3)The reason the Biden admin and Europe have supported Ukraine is not to defeat Russia out right But to degrade Putin's military. If Russia was meant to be defeated Ukraine would have been supplied with more advanced weapons from the start of this war.
4)Japan got the message to re-arm years ago. DO you remember the famous picture of European leaders confronting Trump at the NATO meeting with Abe literally standing with Trump?
5)The US military is more serious now in preparing for war, not with Russia, but with China, than at any other time in US history. They have the PLA's number on speed dial but would rather not get in a conference call that includes Russia. As the PLA has lot of holes in its defenses Stuff that no one talks about. Russia on China's side would plug the biggest of those holes.
6) China is most definitely threatening war right now. Most because its economy is cratering even without US tariffs, and has little chance to recover anytime soon with US tariffs. So what's a unpopular despot regime to do to control the unhappy masses? - A great patriotic war to take revenge for 100 years of humiliation of course !

Things can go to hell pretty fast.

Posted: **12 Mar 2025 01:17**

Doc wrote: ↑10 Mar 2025 13:07
noddy wrote: ↑10 Mar 2025 04:19 oh, so aswell as gutting the social services, we are in for a replacement of the traitorous 1%.

how very mao
Sure I am all for ending social services for the 1%. It is called Oligarchy.

But lets review

1) Trump has not declared that he was pulling the US out of NATO. Much less likely now that Europe has decided it was going to spend more on its self defense and is not going to go directly to war with Putin like Trump has been telling them to do for 8 years and every president for the last 20 years has been telling them outside of the president that was not there Joe Biden.
2)Time is not on Ukraine's side. It simply does not have the man power left to remove Russian troops from its territory and no one else, not even Europe, was ever going to do that for them.
3)The reason the Biden admin and Europe have supported Ukraine is not to defeat Russia out right But to degrade Putin's military. If Russia was meant to be defeated Ukraine would have been supplied with more advanced weapons from the start of this war.
4)Japan got the message to re-arm years ago. DO you remember the famous picture of European leaders confronting Trump at the NATO meeting with Abe literally standing with Trump?
5)The US military is more serious now in preparing for war, not with Russia, but with China, than at any other time in US history. They have the PLA's number on speed dial but would rather not get in a conference call that includes Russia. As the PLA has lot of holes in its defenses Stuff that no one talks about. Russia on China's side would plug the biggest of those holes.
6) China is most definitely threatening war right now. Most because its economy is cratering even without US tariffs, and has little chance to recover anytime soon with US tariffs. So what's a unpopular despot regime to do to control the unhappy masses? - A great patriotic war to take revenge for 100 years of humiliation of course !

Things can go to hell pretty fast.

1) is only vaguely true in that donald trump verbal diorreah, can interpret it 5 different ways kinda fashion.

he as said he has the right to not defend any country that doent meet his (subject to change) standards
he has thrown every single relationship the US had with the world out the door and broken a centuries worth of agreements.

so nar, not true.

all the ukraine stuff, irrelevant, dont care - as i said, this is not about ukraine, never was, never will be.

this is about the relationship between the US, Europe and Russia - if you keep trying to make this about ukraine, I just think you are trying to ignore whats happening.

China isnt a threat, this is all hyperventaliation, they will retake taiwan, its an island of chinese off the chinese coast.

aint nobody going to die for that.. its as absurd as dying for an island of slavs off the russian border.. oh .. wait.. this is confusing isnt it.

Posted: **12 Mar 2025 01:28**

noddy wrote: ↑12 Mar 2025 01:17
Doc wrote: ↑10 Mar 2025 13:07
noddy wrote: ↑10 Mar 2025 04:19 oh, so aswell as gutting the social services, we are in for a replacement of the traitorous 1%.

how very mao
Sure I am all for ending social services for the 1%. It is called Oligarchy.

But lets review

1) Trump has not declared that he was pulling the US out of NATO. Much less likely now that Europe has decided it was going to spend more on its self defense and is not going to go directly to war with Putin like Trump has been telling them to do for 8 years and every president for the last 20 years has been telling them outside of the president that was not there Joe Biden.
2)Time is not on Ukraine's side. It simply does not have the man power left to remove Russian troops from its territory and no one else, not even Europe, was ever going to do that for them.
3)The reason the Biden admin and Europe have supported Ukraine is not to defeat Russia out right But to degrade Putin's military. If Russia was meant to be defeated Ukraine would have been supplied with more advanced weapons from the start of this war.
4)Japan got the message to re-arm years ago. DO you remember the famous picture of European leaders confronting Trump at the NATO meeting with Abe literally standing with Trump?
5)The US military is more serious now in preparing for war, not with Russia, but with China, than at any other time in US history. They have the PLA's number on speed dial but would rather not get in a conference call that includes Russia. As the PLA has lot of holes in its defenses Stuff that no one talks about. Russia on China's side would plug the biggest of those holes.
6) China is most definitely threatening war right now. Most because its economy is cratering even without US tariffs, and has little chance to recover anytime soon with US tariffs. So what's a unpopular despot regime to do to control the unhappy masses? - A great patriotic war to take revenge for 100 years of humiliation of course !

Things can go to hell pretty fast.
1) is only vaguely true in that donald trump verbal diorreah, can interpret it 5 different ways kinda fashion.

he as said he has the right to not defend any country that doent meet his (subject to change) standards
he has thrown every single relationship the US had with the world out the door and broken a centuries worth of agreements.

so nar, not true.

all the ukraine stuff, irrelevant, dont care - as i said, this is not about ukraine, never was, never will be.

this is about the relationship between the US, Europe and Russia - if you keep trying to make this about ukraine, I just think you are trying to ignore whats happening.

China isnt a threat, this is all hyperventaliation, they will retake taiwan, its an island of chinese off the chinese coast.

aint nobody going to die for that.. its as absurd as dying for an island of slavs off the russian border.. oh .. wait.. this is confusing isnt it.

Why should Ukraine matter to the US as a national interest instead of a moral interest? And if it is just a moral interest Ukraine before Putin invaded had(HAS) one of the most corrupt governments in Europe. To such a point it could not qualify for membership in the EU without massive reforms or the EU throwing out membership rules.

Putin said he invaded Ukraine to protect the Russian speaking civilians in Ukraine.

The US bombed Libya to overthrow Ghadaffy to protect civilians.

Such moral purism

Posted: **12 Mar 2025 12:53**

The US has a national interest in the Ukraine. It is important that we get one or two air bases in that part of the Chinese BRI.

Posted: **03 May 2025 15:53**

jus sanguinis is still the principle of citizenship in the German constitution.

This game of calvinball is really asinine and while I don't particularly care for the AfD, the people in charge are terrible liars and paranoiacs and the ruiners of their own nation-state.

Posted: **01 Sep 2025 06:14**

'Islam is NOT our culture!' FURIOUS Germans vow to 'END all immigration' and BOOT France OUT of Euro

Posted: **03 Sep 2025 20:18**

What are the odds of candidates from the same party from the same German city dying separately in the same German city days before an election?

7th AfD Politician Confirmed DEAD - German Elections Nightmare

Posted: **14 Nov 2025 13:13**

Posted: **21 Nov 2025 07:21**

Fate of Das Reich sealed.

Posted: **05 Jan 2026 19:06**

Helping to hasten the process of decline . . . the looney left is attacking and destroying infrastructure.

Reuters | Berlin mayor warns on infrastructure after power station attack

Posted: **05 Jan 2026 22:17**

Typhoon wrote: ↑05 Jan 2026 19:06 Helping to hasten the process of decline . . . the looney left is attacking and destroying infrastructure.

Reuters | Berlin mayor warns on infrastructure after power station attack

I find this insanity astonishing, on top of all the other EU madness quite worrying.

Posted: **06 Jan 2026 04:56**

Parodite wrote: ↑05 Jan 2026 22:17
Typhoon wrote: ↑05 Jan 2026 19:06 Helping to hasten the process of decline . . . the looney left is attacking and destroying infrastructure.

Reuters | Berlin mayor warns on infrastructure after power station attack
I find this insanity astonishing, on top of all the other EU madness quite worrying.

To quote a friend, paraphrasing MC Hammer,

It's Weimar time!

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