Hegseth told the officials that if Mexico didn't deal with the collusion between the country's government and drug cartels, the U.S. military was prepared to take unilateral action, according to people briefed on the Jan. 31 call. Mexico's top brass who were on that call were shocked and angered, feeling he was suggesting U.S. military action inside Mexico, these people said. The Defense Department declined to comment.

Mexico Fears Trump’s Cartel Demand Comes With Tariff and Military Threat - WSJ

The Defense Department declined to comment.

Very encouraging to decline to comment about a report which states you're suggesting invading Mexico.

NEW: The first front pages of Saturday’s newspapers in the UK.

“Ukraine Hero Ambushed”

“Trump stuns world with vile rant at Zelensky”

“A spectacle to horrify the world”

Trump is obliterating the global reputation of the US.

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— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) 28 February 2025 at 22:23

Can only accuse one of those papers as being left wing as well, Daily Mirror supports Labour. The Times is centre-right, Daily Mail is known as "Daily Heil" and is far-right tabloid trash, The Sun is known as "The Scum" and owned by Rupert Murdoch, also far-right tabloid trash. But like I keep saying, even Conservatives unlike Republicans aren't up Russia's ass.

Keir Starmer 'Must Cancel Trump's UK Visit' After Zelenskyy Berated | The National

SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn said: “Starmer had better get back up off his knees and revoke that offer of a state visit.”

The Scottish Greens echoed the sentiment, with party co-leader Patrick Harvie saying that “even [Starmer] must see from the scenes this evening what a profound danger that friendship [with Trump] represents”. “Donald Trump hasn’t changed. He is the same dangerous bully that he was yesterday, and he’s only going to get worse. It is wrong for Starmer and so many others to pretend otherwise,” Harvie said.

First Minister John Swinney also spoke out, saying that the "events in Washington are a clear cause for deep concern, for shock, for anger". "What we need now are cool heads and clear thinking," the SNP leader went on.  "We must stand firm with our European allies in the steadfast defence of Ukraine. That is where Scotland stands."

Tory MP Alicia Kearns, the former chair of Westminster’s foreign affairs committee, said: “Zelenskyy is fighting for the survival of his people. "We just witnessed what can only be described as bullying. Performative bullying for a domestic US audience. Just watching the video shamed me to my core. Utterly shaming.”

Priti Patel, the Tories’ shadow foreign secretary, gave her party’s “unwavering” support to Zelenskyy. “The Ukrainian people have faced horrors that few of us could imagine and we stand shoulder to shoulder with them today and always,” she said.

"President Zelensky has led Ukraine through its darkest hour. His leadership, coupled with the remarkable courage of the Ukrainian people, have inspired us all and crucially held back Russia’s illegal invasion. The Ukrainian people have faced horrors that few of us could imagine and we stand shoulder to shoulder with them today and always. Our support remains unwavering."

Across Europe, governments and officials including from the Netherlands, Czechia, Spain, Germany,  Latvia, Moldova, Lithuania, Poland, and the EU Commission, among others, expressed their support for Ukraine. 

One of the few international voices praising Trump’s actions was Dmitry Medvedev, a close ally of Putin who nominally served as Russia’s president between the despot’s extended terms.

Keir Starmer 'Must Cancel Trump's UK Visit' After Zelenskyy Berated | The National

Fuck sake, even Priti Patel shows more respect and backbone than Republicans, Wtf. Priti Patel!

So good to not have an accelerationist president. 

America is getting so much respect from Trump's (clown show) 4D chess game with Zelenskyy. 

That sounds absolutely terrible.
We have a national health-database (Australia) that allows all private or public health practitioners/outlets access to your health information, scans, appointments and more digitally and instantly.

For example when I had my motorcycle accident I was admitted to a public hospital which did my X-Rays and Ultra sounds... Then I went to another clinic which specialized in MRI scans a week later due to swelling.
I then organized with my private health for an assessment and determined I needed surgery, they had access to all the above instantly and could make a determination based on those results.
Eventually I decided to get surgery through the public system at another hospital due to convenience and quality of care.

Did I mention none of this cost me a cent and was super quick and easy?

The only paperwork I did for the above was a release form from the hospital after the accident which only required my signature.

We have a system based on prioritization, those who have gone through significant trauma are expedited through the system to return individuals to normalcy as soon as possible.

I never had to wait for any of my appointments, I got in straight away when I wanted pending my own personal availability.

I never paid for my medication. But most medication that is "needed" on an on-going basis tends to be heavily subsidized by the pharmaceuticals benefits scheme.

I am a massive advocate for universal health care and investment in health services.

I believe healthcare should be a human right... And even if you are a visitor in Australia, you get the same treatment as everyone else in our public system.

Our healthcare is not only cheaper than the USA's on a per-capita basis, but our quality of care is vastly superior as well.
I just don't get WHY the USA is so adverse to a universal system, Europe and Australia have demonstrably demonstrated it's efficacy.

Honestly I would like to see Australia re-assess our involvement with the USA and reform stronger ties with the UK/Europe once again.
And that includes AUKUS.

Absolutely disgusted with how Trump/Vance treated Zelensky.
Trump and Vance have always had everyone in life delivered to them, Zelensky has had to endure death and destruction for years and fight for everything he has.

They are not even in the same league in terms of credibility.

I honestly wish my country wasn't allied to the USA currently.

Sounds like Trump has been hanging out with Netanyahu.

Trump gives the green light to that war criminal to keep occupying and bombing both Lebanon and Syria. Except there the excuse is weapon smuggling instead of drugs. Accusing Syria's and Lebanon's government of collusion with the smugglers. (Yet at the same time making sure they stay weak enough not to be able to do anything about it)

So now Trump wants to do the same to Mexico in the name of drug cartels...

As suggested earlier, Mexico should threaten to bomb US gun stores, supplying the drug cartels.


Trump saw what Putin and Netanyahu are getting away with and wants a piece of that pie.

This article nails it

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/31/putin-trump-netanyahu-stalin-hitler-mao-successors

These successors to Stalin, Hitler and Mao are the ones making history in an unhappy, warring world

The 19th-century idea that great men – exceptionally talented, courageous, charismatic individuals – direct and change the course of history by the sheer force of their genius and personality is hard to shake. It has persisted despite the rise of egalitarian and Marxist social theory and the advent in the 1960s of EP Thompson’s levelling up school of “history from below”.

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Except, in the modern era, such “great” men are typically not heroes at all, as the word is commonly understood, but anti-heroes or, more precisely, villains. Like Carlyle’s select few, they wield significant power. But unlike them, they use it unwisely, selfishly and destructively, appealing to people’s worst instincts, prejudices and fears. The greatest anti-heroic villains of the 20th century were mass murderers: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.

Today, three contemporary anti-heroes command global history-altering influence. Their messianic views, immense egos, disregard for truth, joylessness and cold-hearted inhumanity single them out as headline hooligans of an unheroic age. Step forward Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump – the riders of the storm, the three witches of a hexed, unhappy, warring world.

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What do this unlovely trio have in common? Putin, Russia’s president, invades other people’s countries and butchers civilians, as in Chechnya, Georgia and Syria. His Ukraine war crimes spree has killed at least 11,000 non-combatants so far. The latest made-in-Moscow horrors are glide bombs, packed with 590kg (1,300lb) of explosive that silently come from nowhere and destroy entire apartment buildings in one blast. (By comparison, an artillery shell contains about 5.9kg of explosive.) Putin ordered more devastating aerial attacks last week.

Then there is Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister. His insistence on keeping occupation troops in Gaza is blocking a ceasefire deal. Last week, he launched a lethal “re-invasion” of the West Bank. He aches to invade Lebanon, too. More than 40,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have died in Gaza since the 7 October Hamas massacres. Like Putin, Netanyahu is accused of crimes against humanity.

Trump, the US presidential hopeful, is a different kind of monster, one who tried to murder American democracy. He prefers ducking out to invading, as in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Venezuela and North Korea. Trump won’t stand with Europe, Nato, Ukraine, Japan or Taiwan. But he’s a killer all the same, witness his 2020 assassination of Iranian general Qassem Suleimani. Trump was re-indicted last week for his 6 January 2021 coup attempt.

This is from last August, things have only gotten worse since then. Well Trump did get a 'ceasefire' in Gaza, or rather managed to divert attention. The 'ceasefire' has only slowed the murdering of Palestinians while moving the war to the West Bank.



All the bad 'predictions' are coming true now

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/03/netanyahu-putin-israel-russia-trump-election/

The outcomes of the two biggest wars in the world hang in the balance of the American presidential election, even though U.S. troops are not involved in combat in either one. If Donald Trump wins the election, both wars will get much, much worse. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both want Trump to win the American presidential election so that they can prolong and intensify their brutal wars without the possibility of American interference.

Five Eyes is compromised now with America in it, I don't trust intelligence sharing with them. CANZUK should replace AUKUS and it should be closely aligned with EU. UK and Canada have been allies longer than UK and America and quite frankly, Canada is a better ally than America to UK, I trust the Canadians to not backstab us at least.

None of this will happen, Starmer is insistent on trying to talk Trump over. Hated him saying UK and USA are best friends in response to the Canadian question, it's not the message I want sent to my Canadian bros. UK could take a real leadership role for Europe and also a proposed CANZUK. Tie it together with EU and we'd be a powerful economic and military bloc alliance.

Zelensky thanks America for 4 minutes straight - YouTube

Well that was an utterly shameful and uncivilized show. Somehow Trump just keeps exceeding himself.

We’ve also just gotten a big reminder that Vance is as much of a piece of shit as his boss.