Oh no…the Leopards ate my face thread

People learning for the first time that long standing US State Department policy was load bearing

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...m-team-of-trump-and-his-hardline-appointments

 

The funniest part will be when Trump decides he wants to be the richest man in the world and awards himself Elmo's companies.

 

Moving to the Ukrainian elephant in the room (being sized up by a face eating leopard) something I think that has gone spectacularly wrong with voters, activists, pundit class etc, is the belief that the US president has unlimited power to fix things, combined with the somewhat contradictory belief that it will be a fun and great thing to do to break all the institutions and international order that is getting in the way of fixing things.

That stuff is load bearing no matter what the LOL bro-casts tell you.

And no matter how much you would like a shift in US policy that supposedly would fix intractable and long standing global issues, the power of the US president to end a slaughter that the voters of Israel and the leadership of Israel and Hamas apparently want is near zero. But that isn't to say the US is not doing anything, and we are about to see that big time with Ukraine.

The US obviously cannot deliver peace in Ukraine, nor 'victory'. But what they can do is make the costs very high, and prevent catastrophic outcomes. Until now.

Trump has exploited this by managing to be on both sides of conflicts simultaneously. In Gaza he was both against "genocide joe" but also delivering peace because he is so tough. Ditto ukraine where everyone is supposedly scared of him, when in reality undermining NATO and ukraine is highly escalatory as we are already seeing.

Congrats everyone!