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What is Trump doing to the world?

Melensdad

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I think most people are looking at Trump's negotiations with Zelensky all wrong.

Tump is showing master class negotiating and looking at Ukraine as only one piece of a puzzle.

Trump sees the USA as paying for the world's defense. Trump sees other nations, literally Canada, the UK, the EU and perhaps 60% of NATO nations as 'freeloaders' relying on US defense. Trump sees that most of them shirking their responsibilities and sees that most of them have done it for 10, 20 or more years. Trump sees that the USA can't afford to continue to pay the bill for freeloaders. Trump sees our borders as something that need to be defended first, and we have bi-lateral treaties with both Mexico and Canada and NEITHER are defending the border, both rely on the USA to monitor the border, stop drug trafficking, etc

Trump sees mass deaths in Ukraine, 1-Million DEAD, 3-Million INJURED between Ukraine and Russia and also see that NOBODY has a solution to end the war, the Biden admin gave Ukraine JUST ENOUGH aid to continue, but not to win.

And there is the middle east, which cost us billions and the HAMAS has only one desire => KILL ALL THE JEWS

So what did Trump do after he was elected, and some things were done even before his inauguration. . .

  • Let's make Canada the 51st state
  • Let's buy Greenland
  • Let's turn Gaza into a luxury resort city like Dubai
  • Tariffs, Tariffs and more 'beautiful Tariffs

SO, looking at the ENTIRE PUZZLE, instead of treating each as an individual, Trump is looking at the WHOLE thing.


Break things down. NATO members are under paying. Some would have to increase to 10% of their GDP for the next 5 or 10 years just to catch up with what they have shorted over the past decade++

So he announces he wants Greenland and the Danes, which patrol the North Sea with icebreakers say WTF??? Oh Hell no! And they now pledge to move their ships to Greenland and to invest $2 BILLION in Greenland and another $5 to $7 BILLION in defenses IF THE E.U. steps up and takes over the North Sea.

BOOM, all of a sudden we don't need to buy Greenland, it is defended and it didn't cost the US a penny.
BOOM, all of a sudden the EU agrees to bolster spending to defend the North Sea. again costing US nothing.

And Trump starts bitching about NATO and sends several different signals.

BOOM, all of a sudden NATO nations are talking about increasing 3.5% and maybe even 5% contributions because they under funded and 9 nations are still under the minimal 2% commitment. This makes NATO much stronger. This costs us nothing. This also helps US companies export arms.

And he talks about GAZA as a tourist trap for the rich and people gaffaw and laugh and are outraged.
And he talks about HAMAS being 8th century barbarians and indicates he will unleash Israel to do whatever it needs to do, including bombing Iran.

BOOM, 12 nations in the middle east are setting a meeting to come up with a "Palestinian Solution" to figure out what THEY are going to do so that the USA doesn't just come in and displace all the Palestinians to build a beachside resort city. And remember that Russia has interests in Syria and Iran and and the middle east is a hotbed for Russia too.

And Trump talks about deporting illegals and nations start to say they won't accept them. He slaps down Columbia instantly and hard and turns their tough talking socialist president into his whimpering little bitch in less than 12 hours.

BOOM, countries now are offering to send their own planes to pick up people, a couple are offering to house criminals for us, and our border crossings have plummeted from 100,000 a week to 100.

Tariffs, tariffs and beautiful tariffs against Canada and Mexico . . . nothing about our trade deals, but everything about fentanyl, human smuggling, illegal border crossing, and the international treaties that both Canada and Mexico have been ignoring and failing to comply with for the past 20+ years (maybe more like 50 years).

BOOM, both nations agree to send their troops to patrol the border and look for fentanyl, both nations agree to invest roughly $1 BILLION each to continue enforcing the border.

And today we have the little chirping bird Zelensky, who has been publicly criticizing Trump forever. The guy literally flew to Scranton, PA during our Presidential Election (I believe it was September, but JD Vance said October, maybe someone can fact check the date) and campaigned with Josh Shapiro and criticized Trump. The Ukrainians, in 2017, during Trumps first campaign also interfered and that ended up destroying Trump's first term due to the "Steele Dossier" which turned into the Russian Collusion Hoax. And we get to today when he is bitch slapped down in the Oval Office.

IMMEDIATELY the E.U. members come out and say they stand behind Ukraine. But Trump knows that Germany has 10, possibly 11 F35 jets that are battle ready. Yes, 10 advanced fighters. Only 10. And UK's Starmer says he wants to commit 10,000 troops but his generals have already told him that the best they might be able to do is 1800 troops. And they would have to rely upon US transport planes, C130's and a full component of US logistics. So we know the EU and NATO are basically powerless without the USA.

And Trump is offering to put the USA onto the ground in the form of private companies to mine their minerals and develop their resources, in a co-dependent and co-profit sharing way, knowing that if we have these big American companies on the ground they are the "buffer" that will ensure lasting deterrence. Because our economic interests are the main reason that USA would be willing to defend any country.

And deterence will also come from NATO being much strong because the other nations are starting to step up and take defense seriously for the first time in decades.

And toss in the who Taiwan-China situation, combined with the massive risks to both Australia and the Philipean Island and all of a sudden the US is in a much better position to help protect the Pacific, which is now being threatened by China. The Phillipean Coast Guard ships have been targeted numerous times by Chinese ships, several have been "bumped" and pushed aside. China has made subtle threats against Australia that are not so subtle. But the mainstream media didn't really cover those incidents and there have been monthly confrontations.

So Zelensky wants 'guarantees' and all of these things add up to a stronger NATO, a strong Ukraine and a stronger US. But Zelensky is blind to the puzzle because he only looks at the single piece.

So now we wait for Zelensky to come back, hat in hand, and fucking apologize for arguing against a cease fire and acting like a 4 year old.


Again, most people look at these individual puzzle pieces and Trump seems to be looking at the whole puzzle. It makes a lot of sense if you actually look at the puzzle. I think Trump is probably much smarter than most people.
 
Zelensky went off the rails in the Oval Office.

This is his Ambassador to the USA's reaction:





And then tonight Zelensky goes on FOX and is interviewed by Brett Baier and refuses to apologize but then tells Fox that his partners need to work with his feelings. Are we his partner? Or are we his benefactor? Are we the only reason he is still alive? Are we the only reason his country has not been destroyed? Literally.

And what do you think the rest of the world leaders are thinking?

I'm betting that China, right now, is thinking this is the wrong time to FAFO.
I'm betting that Australia, Taiwan and the Philippines are actually breathing a little sigh of relief tonight.
I'm thinking the NATO members who are behind in their contributions to mutual defense are looking in their couch cushions for whatever spare change they can find to buy military hardware.
I'm thinking that HAMAS and Iran are shitting in their diapers.
I'm thinking that Columbia, Venezuela and El Salvador are happy right now that they cut deals with Trump.
I'm thinking that Javier Milei is cheering and celebrating that his nation is friends with the Trump team.
 
Damn good write ups.


It just makes sense.

If you look at the US world view, and our own issues, it is common sense and it all fits together.

The EU is literally on the doorstep of this war and they are sitting on the toilet, pants around their ankles and hoping nobody kicks the stall door open. They are literally defenseless without us. Even if they band together they can’t put an effective fighting force on the ground or in the air to protect Ukraine. They need our large transport planes to move equipment. They need our satellites, they are literally blind on the battlefield without them. They need the US to fill in all the blanks they have left open to bring a force to the battle. They have some random pieces, not enough troops and none of the logistics.

That is the reality. Trump sees it. Trump told them this. Trump told Zelensky this. But people people simply don’t see it. I still don’t know why.

Remember Trump declared an "energy emergency" in the US on Day 1 of his term. That includes extracting minerals like lithium, copper, silver, nickel, cobalt, etc. It gives us security.

Now Zelensky wants to blow up the deal Trump is offering and if we put US commercial interests into Ukraine to extract those minerals it would give both the USA and Ukraine security. 2 friendly sources of critical assets are better for the free world than one source. If we go in and mine there, we both get security. And the entirety of the Western nations get security from China's monopoly on these mineral assets.

So simultaneously China is economically weakened.
 
And here is the reality of what is going on today.



England's PM tells Zelensky to go back to the US and apologize.

Why?

Because England, the EU and NATO can't do enough to help Zelensky.

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And even if they do start flying aircraft in offensive actions against Russia, all those planes would require US support because the US has the mid-air refueling aircraft fleets.

Meanwhile, Mexico is working more closely with the US on the border and even deported a couple dozen drug cartel leaders to the USA for prosecution.

Meanwhile, Iran is silent as a church mouse.

So I'll say it again, what happened in the Oval Office with Zalensky probably didn't need to happen, but clearly it sets a tone and nations now are not going FAFO with Trump/Vance in office.
 
New short article from Victor Davis Hanson.

He clearly points out that Zelensky is not considering the rest of the world and that the US actions are global. This clearly dovetails nicely into many of the points I made about what Trump is trying to do with the GLOBAL problems faced by the US and our allies.



VDH: 10 Takeaways From The Zelenskyy Blow-Up

1. Zelenskyy does not grasp—or deliberately ignores—the bitter truth: those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those with whom he obviously does not like or seeks to embarrass (cf. his Scranton, Penn. campaign-like visit in September 2024) alone have the power to save him. For his own sake, I hope he is not being “briefed” by the Obama-Clinton-Biden gang to confront Trump, given their interests are not really Ukraine’s as they feign.
2. Zelenskyy acts as if his agendas and ours are identical. So, he keeps insisting that he is fighting for us despite our two-ocean-distance that he mocks. We do have many shared interests with Ukraine, but not all by any means: Trump wants to “reset” with Russia and triangulate it against China. He seeks to avoid a 1962 DEFCON 2-like crisis over a proxy showdown in proximity to a nuclear rival. And he sincerely wants to end the deadlocked Stalingrad slaughterhouse for everyone’s sake.
3. The Europeans (and Canada) are now talking loudly of a new muscular antithesis, independent of the U.S. Promises, promises—given that would require Europeans to prune back their social welfare state, frack, use nuclear, stop the green obsessions, and spend 3-5 percent of their GDP on defense. The U.S. does not just pay 16 percent of NATO’s budget but also puts up with asymmetrical tariffs that result in a European Union trade surplus of $160 billion, plays the world cop patrolling sea-lanes and deterring terrorists and rogues states that otherwise might interrupt Europe’s commercial networks abroad, as well as de facto including Europe under a nuclear umbrella of 6,500 nukes.
4. Zelenskyy must know that all of the once deal-stopping issues to peace have been de facto settled: Ukraine is now better armed than most NATO nations, but will not be in NATO; and no president has or will ever supply Ukraine with the armed wherewithal to take back the Donbass and Crimea. So, the only two issues are a) how far will Putin be willing to withdraw to his 2022 borders and b) how will he be deterred? The first is answered by a commercial sector/tripwire, joint Ukrainian-US-Europe resource development corridor in Eastern Ukraine, coupled with a Korea-like DMZ; the second by the fact that Putin unlike his 2008 and 2014 invasions has now lost a million dead and wounded to a Ukraine that will remain thusly armed.
5. What are Zelenskyy’s alternatives without much U.S. help - wait for a return of the Democrats to the White House in four years? Hope for a rearmed Europe? Pray for a Democratic House and a 3rd Vindman-like engineered Trump impeachment? Or swallow his pride, return to the White House, sign the rare-earth minerals deal, invite in the Euros (are they seriously willing to patrol a DMZ?), and hope Trump can warn Putin, as he did successfully between 2017-21, not to dare try it again?
6. If there is a cease fire, a commercial deal, a Euro ground presence, and influx of Western companies into Ukraine, would there be elections? And if so, would Zelenskyy and his party win? And if not, would there be a successor transparent government that would reveal exactly where all the Western financial aid money went?
7. Zelenskyy might see a model in Netanyahu. The Biden Administration was far harder on him than Trump is on Ukraine: suspending arms shipments, demanding cease-fires, prodding for a wartime, bipartisan cabinet, hammering Israel on collateral damage—none of which Westerners have demanded of Zelenskyy. Yet Netanyahu managed a hostile Biden, kept Israel close to its patron, and when visiting was gracious to his host. Netanyahu certainly would never before the global media have interrupted, and berated a host and patron president in the White House.
8. If Ukraine has alienated the U.S. what then is its strategic victory plan? Wait around for more Euros? Hold off an increasingly invigorated Russian military? Cede more territory? What, then, exactly are Zelenskyy’s cards he seems to think are a winning hand?
9. If one views carefully all the 50-minute tape, most of it was going quite well - until Zelenskyy started correcting Vance firstly, and Trump secondly. By Ukraine-splaining to his hosts, and by his gestures, tone, and interruptions, he made it clear that he assumed that Trump was just more of the same compliant, clueless moneybags Biden waxen effigy. And that was naïve for such a supposedly worldly leader.
10. March 2025 is not March 2022, after the heroic saving of Kyiv—but three years and 1.5 million dead and wounded later. Zelenskyy is no longer the international heartthrob with the glamorous entourage. He has postponed elections, outlawed opposition media and parties, suspended habeas corpus and walked out of negotiations when he had an even hand in Spring 2022 and apparently even now when he does not in Spring 2025.
Quo vadis, Volodymyr?
 
One part of the global puzzle is certainly being put into place.

Getting Europe to step up and rebuild their own militaries has been a long term goal of President Trump, starting in his first term. Continuing now. Perhaps now more of the European nations are waking the F*** UP and taking their own security more seriously. HOW MUCH $$$ will this save US Taxpayers if Europe steps up and starts acting like their security is their problem but we are just their big friend who stands behind them in case they get into real trouble?



 
All of Europe is now energized and rallying around Ukraine.

......... Where have they been for the past three years?

(Germany gave them some tanks, England sent some guns.......) ...

This looks like a YUGE WIN for Trump, Putin now has to deal with all of Europe supporting Ukraine..... as it SHOULD be.

..... Was this done on purpose? If it was....... it is Genius.

Whether the "Trump/Zelenskyy" bout in the Oval Office was good or bad....... the AFTER-EFFECTS are better than anyone could even imagined.

Win-win-win situation.
 
All of Europe is now energized and rallying around Ukraine.

......... Where have they been for the past three years?

(Germany gave them some tanks, England sent some guns.......) ...

This looks like a YUGE WIN for Trump, Putin now has to deal with all of Europe supporting Ukraine..... as it SHOULD be.

..... Was this done on purpose? If it was....... it is Genius.

Whether the "Trump/Zelenskyy" bout in the Oval Office was good or bad....... the AFTER-EFFECTS are better than anyone could even imagined.

Win-win-win situation.
Celebration time????

I'm waiting until the dust settles.
 
All of Europe is now energized and rallying around Ukraine.

......... Where have they been for the past three years?

(Germany gave them some tanks, England sent some guns.......) ...

This looks like a YUGE WIN for Trump, Putin now has to deal with all of Europe supporting Ukraine..... as it SHOULD be.

..... Was this done on purpose? If it was....... it is Genius.

Whether the "Trump/Zelenskyy" bout in the Oval Office was good or bad....... the AFTER-EFFECTS are better than anyone could even imagined.

Win-win-win situation.
Pretty much agree with all of this as the way it looks like it might play out.

And Fred is right, this cannot be a NATO thing, it must be a EUROPE thing, and it must remain inside Ukraine. Putin can bluster all he wants, but if Putin lobs a bomb into a NATO country we are going into WW3.

Putin may be evil, but I don't think he is stupid; I can't say the same for Macron, Starmer or Zelensky.

We also now know that Zelensky has been taking advice from Obama's team. Which pretty much guarantees he is stoopid, which is stupid with an added bit of emphasis.

Was it not under Obama that Ukraine lost Crimea and was it not Obama who sent humanitarian aid instead of ammunition and weapons? Of course it was. Trump sent in weapons that Obama blocked. So why the hell would he trust the Obama regime? But Obama's Secretary of State, Susan Rice, spilled the beans, she admitted she had the details of Trump's deal, and it now turns out Zelensky met with the Obama squad just before he met with Trump in the Oval Office. And apparently she/they gave him advice on how to handle the negotiations, and we see how well that worked out.

So not UK's Kier Starmer, who seemingly loves Zelensky, in cahoots with France's Macron, are working on a new plan for peace. And what are they going to do with it? They announced they will bring it to Trump. Clearly Trump is the lynchpin for peace and Europe understands this fact.

If only Prime Minister Starmer cared as much about the victims of England's "rape gangs" that abused little white girls for decades as he cares Ukraine.
 
MASTER CLASS in world chess and diplomacy.

Zelensky screws up. So our Treasury secretary takes the deal "off the table" for Zelensky.



And then Zelensky meets with the impotent and self-neutered Europeans and now he says he wants to sign the deal with Trump. But does the deal exit? And Europe is now seriously incentivized to alter their budgets and up their defense budgets significantly. Europe is now incentivized to actually take their own defense seriously. What do you think the Chinese and the Iranians are thinking now? How does Putin continue against a European group that actually has rebuilt their military and armed Ukraine?

Honestly is Zelensky even relevant anymore?



And Iran is watching all this and quaking in its boots. Syria is overrun with military groups that tossed out Assad. Israel sees an opening and is in Syria creating a larger buffer zone. Israel is also remaining in Lebanon to create a buffer zone. And we have not heard much from China in the past 7 days. But we do see that a dozen mid-East nations are trying to figure out a way to come up with a Palestinian 'solution' while, at the same time, the Danish are sill trying to figure out how to keep Trump from 'buying' Greenland and the Danes are now POURING MONEY into, not only Greenland, but also, into North Sea defense.

This is the genius of Trump.

I'm still a proud Libertarian but I have to admit that Trump 47 is an amazing thing to watch. In 30 days he has accomplished some amazing feats that benefit Americans and promote PEACE in the world.
 
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I've voted a Straight-Libertarian Ticket since 1996.

2016 was the first time in my life that I voted for the "Lesser Of Two Evils".

Been voting Trump ever since.
That's because of what I've been noticing for a while: Trump has changed the Republican party, little by little, into a Populist platform. The old Neocons are dying out, or being replaced, by Populists. And the Democrats, reacting to this, have been forced to defend the elites and the government. Today, the Republicans would be more aptly called the Populists, and the Democrats are now the Establishmentarians. That is not wholly true, of course, as it takes time, but that is what has been happening, that is the shift, and it's now more true than not.
 
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