US President Donald Trump delivered a fascist rant Tuesday to the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in which he proclaimed “America First” should be the world’s organizing principle, threatened war and aggression the world over, and lionized the criminal actions of his administration at home and abroad.

He attacked both America’s ostensible allies and states long in Washington’s military-strategic crosshairs in a meandering speech that lasted almost triple his allotted time.

Trump reveled in displaying his disdain and contempt for international law, making clear that Washington will accept no restraints on the ruthless assertion of its imperialist interests, whether through trade war, assassinations, regime-change operations or global war.

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    I’m genuinely unsure whether having Vance or Trump as president would be worse. I’m not sure whether Trump’s incompetency is saving or dooming us more.

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      I’m not sure anyone will really follow or bow down to Vance as they do with Trump. I don’t think Vance has the power, charisma or cult following and (hope) people might ignore him.

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        I tend to get the same feeling. They wanted Trump because of his unhinged nonsense and hyper-aggressive big man stunts. Vance doesn’t have that same energy. I am of no mind that Vance is a thinking man with a sense of morals (clearly, he ate his own words by becoming Trump’s toady), but I don’t see him commanding the many as Trump can.

        He’ll be dangerous, but in a different way. I feel like Trump is more of the distraction out front while all the real crime is taking place out of sight. He just keeps everybody looking and talking while all his wealthy supporters are walking about the back door with the jewelry.

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      Vance has no cult of personality around him so he wouldn’t be able to hold maga together. Goes for Miller too.

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      It’s not clear whether they’re quoting Trump or not there, but yeah, that’s a blatantly pro-Russian stance.

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      The “World Socialist Web Site”. A bastion of impartial news don’t ya know.

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    Trump is amazing. He has successfully bankrupted casinos, charities, and now a country and he’s not done yet.

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    Fox’s response to this blundering grandpa’s naked aggression was of course to discuss the merits of bombing vs gassing a major metropolitan area within the US.

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    Putin gleefully sitting in Kremlin and says to himself “best investment I made.” US is having loose screws that’s why Putin has become emboldened to test NATO by sending drones over Poland and Estonia

    Europe, we have three years tops to invest in the military before the US potentially collapses. The ruling class also better do a good job investing in people to prevent far right populism capitalising on wealth disparity, which would only serve Putin.

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      Putin is the best inveator in the world. For the cost of a few hookers and some video tape for some black mail material, plus some nerds to create a bunch of bots, he managed to own the US and build an army of red hats within our borders.

      It would have cost trillions to own the US via millitary action and put that many boots on US soil.

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      Well, after reading the whole thing… they have equally bad things to say about Russia and China, so I don’t think the article is written by a tankie. And even tho I disagree with their claims that Europe is sabotaging the peace talks in Ukraine (it’s obvious to most people that russia doesn’t wanna give up the land that they’ve taken and Ukraine isn’t happy to concede it either), I also can’t say for sure that they’re not. World leaders are known to be lying cunts and it wouldn’t surprise me to hear that they are indeed doing that. They probably think it’s a good thing that Russia is spending so much time and resources in Ukraine.

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        The scope for European leaders to be lying is limited, though, because they are absolutely right in saying that if Russia feels it succeeds in Ukraine, they won’t stop there; they’ll take a little nibble of the next country, and then the next. So while they might feel they can get away with not backing Ukraine as thoroughly as they pretend they are, they cannot afford for Ukraine to lose.

        The claim that Europe is stretching out the war is usually thin cover for the idea that the good, swift end to the war is for Ukraine to concede to Russia’s expansionist demands.

        While the article does criticise Russia once, at the end, it also uncritically parrots the Russian line about its infringement of NATO airspace and the cause of the war in Ukraine. If you don’t want to call it tankie, we can still call it that lies and propaganda.

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    That is if you take what he said seriously.

    On the other hand he probably is demented and thinks that the way he curves his lips while he talks is very charismatic and dominant lol.

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    disdain and contempt for international law, making clear that Washington will accept no restraints on the ruthless assertion of its imperialist interests, whether through trade war, assassinations, regime-change operations or global war.

    As opposed to every other US president?

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      It’s just not wrapped in nice words anymore. Oh, and they also don’t respect their own laws anymore. So it still is an escalation.