As much as anything else, it’s that which Starmer and Macron are up against when trying to convince Trump to provide security guarantees.
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Can’t rely on that dumb fascist.
mar 2, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Good point
mar 2, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
They need to start with the basics by flushing Russian disinformation out of the remaining democracies. No excuses, no exceptions. If they cannot do that, Russia wins. bsky.app/profile/pete...
mar 2, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
China backstop?
mar 2, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Starmer is going to have to get a hell of a lot closer to Macron in the event that Trump withdraws Trident from the UK. Those 250 French nukes might be the glue that holds things together.
mar 2, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
And the concrete of that is that you can’t now have a security *guarantee* from Trump. European politicians and especially defence/ intel folk can no longer trust the current US administration or machine. Be interesting to note what the first public signs of this are.
mar 2, 2025, 4:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Lewis, I don't know if you watched the whole thing but I thought it would be worth looking at. There were lots of times Trump talked about Biden did this and Biden did that. His idea of a flimsy security guarantee didn't help. JD Vance came up with Lind about Zelensky campaigning for Biden....
mar 2, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
And Zelensky hadn't a clue what he was on about. Equally, he tried to push back on the idea that the US has provided the majority of the aid over Europe. Equally, Trump didn't get when Zelensky said that if they take Ukraine that he'd feel it in the US. Trump took a literal meaning rather than...
mar 2, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 0 • view
The point that if they go into Ukraine then maybe Poland could be next or countries where there are US bases or citizens there. It's true Zelensky did go through everything his country went through but equally Trump seemed to only care about making a deal favourable to the US before looking at peace
mar 2, 2025, 4:13 pm • 0 0 • view
‘Convincing’ Trump of anything is like talking to an over-tired toddler. Although the over-tired toddler does grow up…
mar 2, 2025, 3:29 pm • 3 0 • view
And doesn’t have a nuclear arsenal.
mar 2, 2025, 3:54 pm • 0 0 • view
That Trump and Vance appear to get their foreign knowledge from watching video on X/Twitter. Certainly seemed to be what Vance indicated during the press conference. They basically imbibe what Musk and Putin send them.
mar 2, 2025, 3:18 pm • 49 2 • view
I don't think Vance is stupid. I think he knows very well what's going on. He's just an evil piece of s*it.
mar 2, 2025, 3:20 pm • 66 0 • view
Vance is far from stupid (unlike Trump). The problem is he's an amoral opportunist, who's cosplaying at being Trump's Mini-me for the sole purpose of a 2028 Election bid. I find that far more abhorrent than Trump, whose issues all go back to his mental instability. Vance has made a conscious choice.
mar 3, 2025, 12:58 am • 1 0 • view
Didn't say he's stupid, nor do I think he is, just that he seemed to indicate he gets his foreign knowledge from videos on X/Twitter. Despite what we might all casually say, I don't think anyone who reaches high office can be talentless. But in my estimation, Vance is vile. (As is his boss)
mar 2, 2025, 3:28 pm • 13 1 • view
Or rather, he’s speaking on behalf of his MAGA supporters, because he knows it’s where they get their information from.
mar 2, 2025, 3:32 pm • 6 0 • view
I'd say both. It leaves me wondering, does Vance take the job seriously and actually take briefings or operate on "common sense" and what he's seen in random media.
mar 2, 2025, 3:35 pm • 1 0 • view
OP misses a crucial core point. The BunkerTroll doesn't get his news unfiltered either, as many have observed in the past decade(s). He gets print-collages on his desk. Remember, he once ordered old fashioned typewriters in 2013, after the WikiLeaks/Snowden hack. And this: bsky.app/profile/peip...
mar 2, 2025, 11:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Musk posts Batman clips saying it’s actual footage from the Uk
mar 2, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Vance says "thought Gotham was in the USA?"
mar 2, 2025, 4:34 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s not stupid, but, like Trump, he’s not too clever either. It will all come crashing down around their ears very soon.
mar 22, 2025, 10:37 am • 2 0 • view
I actually think Vance might privately be very clever. Maybe he knows that the American secret service have an accident in store for Trump to enable him to become President. What he doesn't reckon is that it's an accident for both of them.
mar 2, 2025, 11:05 pm • 1 0 • view
That's what I've been wondering for a while. Trump didn't achieve what was planned first time around, so they put in place handlers (Musk, Thiel, etc), and Vance has been promised the presidency - either at the end of Trump's term, or during it.
mar 3, 2025, 12:19 am • 1 0 • view
I think it's pretty apparent that the Tech Bros want Vance in charge. Trump is just a useful idiot to them, as he indeed is to a lot of people.
mar 3, 2025, 1:00 am • 1 0 • view
Evil...and stupid!
mar 2, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Vance follows literal Nazi and white supremacist accounts on Twitter, and interacts with them, and nobody in the media seems interested in reporting on this
mar 3, 2025, 7:39 am • 0 0 • view
Wouldn’t it be an idea now to accept what @maitlis.bsky.social seems to recognise. Trump is on a mission to destroy any international accountability. And Putin knows they have an ally on that with Netanyahu
mar 2, 2025, 4:03 pm • 2 0 • view
The MAGA loons are all cowards. They show it time after time.
mar 2, 2025, 4:30 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s a rare occasion that I listen to LBC for 4 hrs, but today that happened. I’m not sure where you get your callers or what dimension of reality they are beaming in from. It really made me wonder whether some of them are actors.
mar 2, 2025, 3:25 pm • 3 0 • view
And the MAGA monomaniacs are lapping up all her and similar nonsense up
mar 2, 2025, 3:51 pm • 1 0 • view
It reminds me of 2022 when Macron tried to speak to Putin but all Putin could talk about was Zelensky being a Nazi. How can you deal with such untruths? And now it’s coming direct from the White House…
mar 2, 2025, 3:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Schizophrenia make for a good guarantee?
mar 2, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view