Re: Musk et al.

On 15/02/2025 15:01, Lars Poulsen wrote:

On 2025-02-15, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

It is amazing how fast Trump et al are Making America Small,
contemptible and entirely without honour on the world stage.
Heading for N Korean status.

 Sadly, that is the Truth. And it is terrifying to watch from within.
 But I am surprised to hear that from you. I thought you would
like his libertarian soke screen?

I am a total libertarian. I agree strongly with his *avowed* stance on free speech, wokery, asian immigration, and pseudo solutions to the climate change bogey man. If applied in the USA.
But whether he believes any of it at all, is open to question.
And he has no right, other than 'because I can' to piss all over Ukraine, Gaza, Canada, Europe, Britain and of course Greenland at the same time as saying that he isn't interested in other countries at all and is solely working for the USA.
In fact at this point in time he appears to be working for Russia.
If he wants to isolate the USA and stand alone when China attacks, that is his prerogative. The USA has all it needs to survive alone.  Just poorer.
But as we have learnt with Putin, it now seems that any international treaty that a nation signs up to with the USA will be reneged upon as soon as it suits America.
People will take their business out of dollars and put it in sterling or the Euro. Dealings with the USA will be strictly cash up front. They will think twice about buying US military kit that comes with a 'does not work in Russia' sticker on it. They will avoid Boeing altogether after yet another debacle ...
The transition from ally to fair weather friend, only when it suits Trump, will result in loss of airbases all over Europe and the impossibility of carrying out middle eastern Air strikes. What's that? but we have signed contracts for the leases? We have! but it seems that defence contracts signed with the USA are no longer fit to wipe your bottom on.
Another 911? Of course British intelligence will know about it, but the USA doesn't need British intelligence does it? Or Canadian, Australian...
No man is an island. Nor is any country.
Yer Grand Fart has a bit to learn.
But he can always  run away to Russia, who it is alleged have all the goods on him they need.
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In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act.
- George Orwell