Increasing US isolation

[Mac1958]

Competition was going to increase anyway, but now we've made it happen a lot more quickly by destroying our relationships with our former friends and former allies.

If you don't think that has happened, then you're not paying attention. You're hiding. Just like America is now.

We're now a necessary evil when it comes to trade, commerce and technology. The rest of the world is detaching as fast as it can, and we'll all pay the price.

Our new "you need us more than we need you, so nyah nyah nyah" foreign policy is the height of hubris and ignorance.

 

[Mac-7]

Sherlock Holmes

China and India are not buddies now and never will be

The TDS among the privileged enlightened class where people like Sachs live is very strong

 

[westwall]

I spent some time catching up with the economist Jeffrey Sachs yesterday and I found it enlightening.

The upshot of my catch up is that US dominance is fading and Europe with it possibly, partly due to recent US actions, new alliances are forming between states that the US worked to keep opposed to each other, for example China is now starting to talk more to India and Japan, these are (he argues) very natural alliances and it is only because of US policy that they've been prevented from developing but that kind of US influence is now fading, the US is being seen as increasingly unimportant.

He talks about the anxiety here in the US, the tension here and how it is more or less just here, other nations more or less don't care and see the US has a declining empire far way and just a distraction now.

He points out that a country with 4% of the population has for far too long tried to run the world and that those days are over, not just because of Trump but certainly in ways that Trump is not equipped to do anything about.

Worth a listen whichever "side" you're on.

Dude, the lies are so easily refuted you should stop.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Sherlock Holmes

China and India are not buddies now and never will be

The TDS among the privileged enlightened class where people like Sachs live is very strong

Just because Sachs has a profession and a job and you don't?

 

[westwall]

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Yeah, sure. How about the fighting going on along the border.

You forget about that already?

The Indians haven't.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Yeah, sure. How about the fighting going on along the border.

You forget about that already?

The Indians haven't.

"**** you. Make a move and you are dead"

Anyone with a signature like that has lost the right to be taken seriously.

Prepare for a pact, some form of China led military alliance, it's foreseeable. China + India + Russia + Belarus + North Korea...

 

[Dorian Mode]

Yeah, sure. How about the fighting going on along the border.

You forget about that already?

The Indians haven't.

It's true there are tensions between India and China, and there are still tensions between China and Russia. There are border tensions all over the world. What is keeping the BRICS members together is the bigger threat they collectively face from the West, especially the US. The geopolitical chessboard is getting extremely complicated and I think the East is willing to genuinely try to work out their smaller problems. I'm not so sure the West is. Remember, the West includes Europe, and they have 2000+ years of animosity between the various European countries and with America. And The West still thinks military action and financial warfare are better options than true diplomacy.

 

[Dorian Mode]

"**** you. Make a move and you are dead"

Anyone with a signature like that has lost the right to be taken seriously.

Prepare for a pact, some form of China led military alliance, it's foreseeable. China + India + Russia + Belarus + North Korea...

Don't forget Iran, Venezuela, Iraq and maybe a few other OPEC countries. And many African countries. And many South American countries. America has not been a good friend to most of the world.

 

[Meathead]

Yes I made a general claim that inhibiting alliances has been a goal of US policy since WW2. We have worked to prevent China and Japan and Korea cooperating, same with India and China and Africa, we've manipulated using economic pressure (as we are attempting now with sanctions) things so as to prevent economic blocs from forming that might undermine our dominance.

This isn't controversial, if it sounds radical or outlandish to you then that's not my concern.

You have no idea of the fear and loathing of China in the far east. Having spent the last two winters there, I do.

Nothing Trump can do can change that

 

[westwall]

It's true there are tensions between India and China, and there are still tensions between China and Russia. There are border tensions all over the world. What is keeping the BRICS members together is the bigger threat they collectively face from the West, especially the US. The geopolitical chessboard is getting extremely complicated and I think the East is willing to genuinely try to work out their smaller problems. I'm not so sure the West is. Remember, the West includes Europe, and they have 2000+ years of animosity between the various European countries and with America. And The West still thinks military action and financial warfare are better options than true diplomacy.

The GLOBALISTS feel that way. The normal people don't want war. That's why Trump got elected. The normal people are tired of dying for the globalists.

 

[westwall]

"**** you. Make a move and you are dead"

Anyone with a signature like that has lost the right to be taken seriously.

Prepare for a pact, some form of China led military alliance, it's foreseeable. China + India + Russia + Belarus + North Korea...

Ummm, that's a quote from one of YOU morons.

You ******* moron.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Ummm, that's a quote from one of YOU morons.

It's your signature, just as I said it was.

You ******* moron.

You're just a fat baby.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

I spent some time catching up with the economist Jeffrey Sachs yesterday and I found it enlightening.

The upshot of my catch up is that US dominance is fading and Europe with it possibly, partly due to recent US actions, new alliances are forming between states that the US worked to keep opposed to each other, for example China is now starting to talk more to India and Japan, these are (he argues) very natural alliances and it is only because of US policy that they've been prevented from developing but that kind of US influence is now fading, the US is being seen as increasingly unimportant.

He talks about the anxiety here in the US, the tension here and how it is more or less just here, other nations more or less don't care and see the US has a declining empire far way and just a distraction now.

He points out that a country with 4% of the population has for far too long tried to run the world and that those days are over, not just because of Trump but certainly in ways that Trump is not equipped to do anything about.

Worth a listen whichever "side" you're on.

I just love the new technology called AI. Today we can refute false posts in an instant, whereas a decade ago it would have taken a human days to get this information. Here is the REAL truth from Grok.

Jeffrey Sachs, political views are shaped by his work in sustainable development, global economics, and critiques of U.S. foreign policy. He’s often described as a progressive due to his advocacy for poverty alleviation, climate action, and multilateral cooperation.
He’s criticized Trump’s trade policies, like tariffs, as economically destructive and illegal under international law, arguing they harm both the U.S. and global economies. Sachs also slammed Trump’s foreign policy, such as withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and escalating tensions with China.

Even the fed chief admits he was wrong on tariffs. When will this guy do the same??

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

I just love the new technology called AI. Today we can refute false posts in an instant, whereas a decade ago it would have taken a human days to get this information. Here is the REAL truth from Grok.

Jeffrey Sachs, political views are shaped by his work in sustainable development, global economics, and critiques of U.S. foreign policy. He’s often described as a progressive due to his advocacy for poverty alleviation, climate action, and multilateral cooperation.
He’s criticized Trump’s trade policies, like tariffs, as economically destructive and illegal under international law, arguing they harm both the U.S. and global economies. Sachs also slammed Trump’s foreign policy, such as withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal and escalating tensions with China.

Yes that sounds like Sachs.

Even the fed chief admits he was wrong on tariffs. When will this guy do the same??

Sachs won't because he's right and not frightened of trump.

 

[Mac-7]

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Just because Sachs has a profession and a job and you don't?

You are easily fooled by a meaningless photo op

 

[Mac1958]

Prepare for a pact, some form of China led military alliance, it's foreseeable. China + India + Russia + Belarus + North Korea...

Not to mention our former friends and former allies, from Canada to Japan to the EU.

Evidently the flock thinks that Trump's threats, intimidation, insults, mockery, trolling and massive & constantly changing economic disruptions were going to be just fine with those folks. Yeah, no big deal.

I'm not sure how anyone can be that thick, but MAGA is somehow there.

 

[westwall]

It's your signature, just as I said it was.

You're just a fat baby.

Yeah, I use it as my signature to show the world just what sort of sick in the head people you all are.

I am glad to see it bothers you.

The truth of who you freaks are needs to be known by EVERYONE.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

You are easily fooled by a meaningless photo op

I think it's pretty obvious which of us was fooled around here:

THIS IS NOT A NAZI SALUTE

you ******* Nazi apologist.

 

[Paradoxical#1]

Yes that sounds like Sachs.

Sachs won't because he's right and not frightened of trump.

So, the fed chief who also agreed with Sachs before and recently admitted he was wrong doesn't matter to you? All these overeducated snobs like him said tariffs were ruinous and now have shut up, Sachs should follow them.

 

[Billiejeens]

Iran will hit back at some point. We likely don’t have the intel capabilities we once did to discover it thanks to Trump’s behavior.

Utter stupidity
As always.