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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      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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        Any outlet which thinks left-wing means supporting Russia’s war of conquest is sufficiently one-dimensional as to be disposed of one-dimensionally.

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          Ah, that’s what you meant. But the content here is not wrong. Cnn and even whitehouse.gov and nytimes say broadly the same. Of course on nytimes only shortly and the rest of it apologist, while whitehouse doesn’t assess, lists only raw quotes, while CNN has some critiques.

          Ugh, and BBC like what he says.

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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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      Regrettably, Americans come factory new without the long term memory module installed. Typical cost cutting enshittification, you know how it is.

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        Wait until you tell them about the native american genocide they committed.

        They even celebrate it and call it fucking “Thanksgiving” atleast that kinda guilt pierced a bit through. (No it didnt)

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          I will say, as someone who personally went through the American education system, that the genocide of Native Americans is actually something that is talked about in our schooling, though really only in broad terms, with basically only the trail of tears getting a specific mention. Consequently, the scale of the atrocity is not properly conveyed, but we’re pretty much all at least generally aware. In my opinion, though, that cognitive dissonance makes us worse, not better.

          The larger problem, however, is in my opinion twofold. The first is that it is often framed as something which was regrettable but ultimately inevitable “they were just in the way”. This inevitability this is often presented as a component of manifest destiny, that the “American people” (who, curiously, do not include the people who were here first) were always going to end up controlling the lands that we did (see: from sea to shining sea) and so as a result we are somehow absolved by fate. The second issue is that the way that native Americans are talked about in our education system are as something that either is or soon will be a part of history, rather than as still living groups of people who we are actively continuing to oppress and marginalize in the present.

          All that is to say, rather than ignorance, we’ve chosen to believe paper-thin lies to absolve ourselves instead; arguably even worse than not knowing at all.

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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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    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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    The world has a chance to do something really funny to 1600 Pennsylvania ave

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

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      If he had declared war on the world, which wouldn’t be so out of character for him after being insulted by an escalator, you wouldn’t need to go to wsws to read about it.

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        The best thing is that the UN reported on the cause of the failure:

        Automatic safety stop at the combs. Probably caused by his backwards facing videographer that went up before him.

        His incessant need for publicity and fame caused the stop.

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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.