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      We are in hell.

      Always was, just this time Trumpler is exacerbating the overall situation - essentially driving us deeper into the underworld.

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    Outside of the overt extortion for entry bit, how would this be any different than the current UN where the US unilaterally controls basically every decision or its consequences?

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      It’s his same old song. Tear down what already exists, then huck a new version of it out for the very low price of $19.84.

      I’m surprised he hasn’t added his name to the title of it yet.

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      UN SC is not unilaterally controlled by the US, other permanent members get a veto too. That’s why he would like to replace that.

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    Trump doesn’t honor any agreement he signs,why would anyone be stupid enough to agree to this.

    He will just keep increasing the price.

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      Nonsense. The price is firm. It’s two billion dollars and not one cent more. And that’s pretty cheap. Three billion, for such a good protection service? Very cheap! Just five billion!

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    Every pro Trumper I know also has a deep fear of the UN or some shadowy organisation controlling the world. Every conversation ended up with “Well at least he will take back power from the elites”. Now Trump declares he wants to rule the world, and outlines their exact fears as his plan and they are silent. No comment. Why are people so stupid? And pathetically so. It not even hard to see how ridiculous this guy is, but people are still bowing down to it.

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      The next 90 days will decide if the EU is a puppet state of the US.

      By the soldier count on Greenland right now, it’s lookin kinda sus. They couldn’t defend a movie theater rn.

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        The soldiers are symbolic. Any attack on them is an attack on all of Europe (well those countries present in Greenland).

        If you are going to have a war, you don’t want 1000s of your best soldiers stuck in a snowdrift.

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        Any nation that joins this farcical board makes itself a vassal to the US. I kinda expect random small nations with low stakes in the UN to go for it, to suck up to tRump and try to curry favor. For them, becoming a vassal will be moving up in the world. But any self-respecting European nation needs to double down on its commitments to Europe.

        Who becomes chairman when trump leaves office? The next US president, a senior member of the board, or is it a position for life? Or is he so convinced that he’ll never leave office that he didn’t bother describing that in the charter?

        He’s trying to make himself chancellor king of the world.

        Also Europe having a few dozen soldiers on Greenland is more of a deterrent. It says “you attack here, you’re attacking all of us,” and it also acts as an assurance to Denmark that the other nations will respond if something happens. Since Article 5 wouldn’t apply if attacked by another NATO country…

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          to suck up to tRump and try to curry favor.

          Give the bully your lunchbox and she’ll want your lunchbox tomorrow.

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    On Friday, the White House presented the composition of “a founding Executive Board”, consisting exclusively of figures loyal to Trump: his Middle East adviser Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former UK prime minister Tony Blair.

    It’s astonishing how often Tony Blair manages to find new ways to be a massive fucking disappointment. It’s like he’s already concluded that he’s going to hell for the whole Iraq thing so he’d may as well lean into it by being a huge cunt while he’s alive.

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      I thought the same thing. I mean the whole Iraq thing could be seen as a misjudgement in hindsight. Now though he just looks evil.

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        And it won’t be by GDP either. He will ask the exact same amount from each country. If you’re too small to pay, you get conquered

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      Satire now would just be him doing anything like a normal sane president.

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    The words in the picture are wrong. It should be:
    I’m going to build my own UN with
    little children and more little children!

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    Can we start a go fund me to remove him from office since no one else with the power has the balls to do so?