President Trump said on Tuesday that the US would “take over” the Gaza Strip, a surprise announcement he made while speaking with reporters at the White House during a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too. We’ll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site, level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out, create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for people of the area,” Trump said.
The president said earlier that the Palestinians must be removed from Gaza “permanently,” making it clear the plan will involve the ethnic cleansing of the territory despite strong resistance from neighboring Arab states. The plan also implies that the US would rebuild Gaza for Jewish settlers.
Trump was asked who would live in Gaza under his plan and replied, “The world’s people,” and suggested some Palestinians may also be allowed.
He said, “I think the entire world, representatives from all over the world, will be there, and they’ll live there. Palestinians, also, … will live there. Many people will live there.”
Trump also said he wouldn’t rule out deploying troops to Gaza. When asked if his plan meant he would send troops, Trump said, “If it’s necessary, we’ll do that. We’re gonna take over that piece and develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs. It will be something the entire Middle East can be very proud of.”
The president suggested he had been considering the plan for a long time. “I see a long-term ownership position and bringing great stability to that part of the Middle East. Everybody I’ve spoken to — this was not a decision made lightly — everybody loves the idea of the US owning that piece of land, developing and creating thousands of jobs with something that will be magnificent in a magnificent area nobody would really know. They look, and all they see is death and destruction and rubble,” he said.
Netanyahu also commented on the plan, saying, “President Trump is taking it to a much higher level. He sees a different future for that piece of land that has been the focus of so much terrorism and attacks against us, so many trials and tribulations. He has a different idea and it’s worth paying attention to this. He’s exploring it and it’s something that could change history.”
Later on Tuesday, Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, appeared on Fox News and endorsed the president’s plan, saying a better life for the Palestinians is “not necessarily tied to the physical space that you are in today.”
When asked what message Trump was trying to send by calling for a US takeover of Gaza, Witkoff said, “He’s telling the Middle East that the last 50 years of doing things was not the correct way of doing things, and he’s going to change it up.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also endorsed the US takeover and ethnic cleansing of Gaza. “Gaza MUST BE FREE from Hamas. As [Trump] shared today, the United States stands ready to lead and Make Gaza Beautiful Again. Our pursuit is one of lasting peace in the region for all people,” he wrote on X.
A US takeover of the Gaza Strip would require Israel to restart its genocidal war, and it could potentially involve direct US military action. Since coming into office, Trump has begun advancing billions of dollars worth of new weapons shipments for Israel funded by US military aid.
Hamas would fiercely resist a US takeover, and the group has replaced about all the fighters it has lost, according to US intelligence, despite Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinians.
This is completely insane and illegal.
Gaza is a territory under a UN mandate.
And now the emperor of the world wants nothing less than “remove“ the Palestinians from Gaza “permanently,” and pursue the ethnic cleansing of the territory.
Quickly send a psychiatrist to the Oval office. It's urgent.
Sounds like a wacky comedy!! Egotistical American bilionare politico PRETENDER gets elected & volunteerz to complete the GENOCIDE & ETHNIC CLEANSING WHILE LOSING THE WAR IN UKRAINE, ANOTHER WAR THAT GOT TIRING & America WALK OUT ON!!!! NOT A LOSS, BUT A PARRY!!!!!!
But remember – Trump promised to end the Ukraine-Russian War on Jan. 21st.
Now he's given Korn Flakes a hundred days to do so or Kellogg's fired and someone else gets 100 days to try.
"Final President Trump : You're Remembering His Promises Wrong, America !"
A beautiful genocide. First kill and destroy everything that stands, send people around in circles. Starve them, no nedical help, painkillers verbotten, and then remive what is left. Sweep like a garbage. Build besutiful real estate for future DAVOS gatherings.
This seems to be the new method of warfighting. Civilians are the prime target, mikitary irrelevant. All weaker nations better beware. You are just real estate.
North America was colonized similar way. Inspired by Brits Germans tried to repeat this practice in Russia but failed miserably. Now we have it again. This time in Palestine.
And Russia. And many societies. Russia too. Also, Russia. And Russia is colonial. And Russia had slavery 🙂
Germany was inspired by northwest Europeans in the US. The ideology didn’t work so well in Europe.
Russia had no colonies and no slavery.
Russia expanded differently, and it absolutely absolutely had slavery. England was separated from North America by an ocean. Russia just expanded by land.
Russia had slaves in Alaska. That’s how I know.
Russia was a fairly small state before it colonized much of northern Asia east of the Urals as well as much of central Asia, Ukraine, etc. under the tsars.
To the extent that the Soviet Union was a proxy for Russia, it colonized eastern Europe.
Post-Soviet Russia colonized Chechnya and is in the process of trying to colonize Ukraine.
At one time the governor of Moscow was Genghis Khan's oldest son. It took a pope's rep a full year to reach Moscow and then 21 days to reach Mongolia.
Civilians have been the primary target for Western wars for around a century. It has to do with the innate cowardice of bullies, who will always kowtow to the more powerful. The belief of the elite who rule us is that if they make people miserable enough that they'll rise up and overthrow their weak leaders to slavishly embrace the new and more powerful leaders, because that's what they would do.
Never mind that it's never worked in the past, of course it will work this time!
There is a war Hamas declared – and Hamas lost.
When Germany lost WWII, there was an expulsion of ethnic Germans from many lands, such as Poland and Crimea. 12 million Germans were expelled. So it goes.
Hamas could have chosen peace and prosperity for Gaza, and made a deal, like the PLO. Instead, they chose war. Ask Yahya Sinwar if this worked. Oh wait – you can't, because he's busy in Hell.
Germans get blamed for colonialism, genocide, get mass raped, killed, expelled, persecuted.
And they feel guilty!
He who writes the stories wields the power.
Yes, Nazi Germany committed an enormous number of foul, hideous atrocities, including the attempt to exterminate an entire group of people (Jews).
After the war, they suffered a lot of revenge and pay-back, mostly from the Soviet Union, which lost 20 million people do the German aggression.
Germans should feel great guilt for the atrocities they committed, following an insane man and his delusional theories about superior and inferior races.
However, I do not condone the mass rapes of German women, said to be the worst case of mass rape in world history. Russia also used German POWs as slaves to rebuild their country; most German POWs died (estimated to be at least 1 million deaths).
As for expulsions, that is up to each country, and I can sympathize with Poland or Russia for not wanting to keep Germans in their country after they forced there way in. Wars suck.
A few weak nations like Armenia have cause to fear, but it’s mostly minorities within hostile states who should fear.
It's not under UN mandate: it's part of the Palestinian State, which elected Hamas in the last elections held (2006). Good luck (so to say) defeating Hamas and the rest of the Palestinian Resistance, doing what Israel failed at.
The United Nations is responsible for the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the occupied Palestinian Territory.
Israel is the occupying Power in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and that includes Gaza.
Israel is bound by a whole series of international laws and rules, not the least is the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War of 1949.
Taken away Gaza from the Palestinians, as D. Trump has recklessly proposed, would be sheer robbery.
UNRWA is not an administrative body. Israel is not legitimate in their claim to being the “occupying power”, especially since they pulled out of Gaza long ago. You can’t be an “occupying” power when you’re not occupying the land.
Surely Israel is (theoretically) bound by humanitarian conventions, as is everybody else (international jurisdiction applies, anyone can persecute crimes against Humanity… if they have the guts to do so).
You can't be an "occupying" power when you're not occupying the land.
Semantics. Not much difference controlling everything from inside a chain-link fence as compared to controlling everything from outside a chain-link fence. How about "controlling" power?
Technically anyone would be legitimate to land troops in Gaza with a Palestinian invitation. I’m sure that Israel and thus the USA would take as a provocation but legally it’s the only “valid” way to get into Gaza. Remember that Gaza has a coast, territorial waters and airspace as any other sovereign country.
The same applies to West Sahara, BTW. But at least in that case Morocco controls 2/3 of the territory and almost all the coast. Israel controls NOTHING in Gaza.
I guess our definition of nothing differs.
All nonsense.
1. Actually, the responsible party of Gaza is the Palestinian Authority, but it was taken over in a violent coup by Hamas. And UNWRA is a fake organization that lost all credibility by participating in the Oct. 7 atrocities. Further, treating the great-grandchildren of people who might have been born in British Palestine as "refugees" is absurd. A refugee is someone who flees a conflict zone, not a hereditary title. I can't claim to be a refugee because of my ancestors.
2. Gaza was not "occupied" (except by Hamas). Israel left in 2006.
3. Relocating people after a war is a common event, such as the 12 million Germans who were relocated after WWII.
GAZA is a non-member observer state of the UN. It is not a "Mandate" in the sense of the "British Mandate" of which it was once a part. Nevertheless, it is likely that Trump's plans need to be approved by the full Assembly which he cannot threaten with a tariff. He could ask for a "Human Rights" mandate!
Palestine is a state.
Gaza is just part of that state.
And that state is a non-member observer state?
If the current residents of Gaza move and become citizens of another state, then they are no longer members of the State of Palestine. They will have passports that say they are citizens of Jordan or Egypt or another state.
This would be analogous to the status of many ethnic Germans after WWII, who left countries such as Poland, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia, and became citizens of Germany.
I don't see Trump working with the UN. He has already pulled out of WHO; the UN could be next.
He would just use the US military to move Gazans to somewhere else; the UN could debate it all they wanted.
"move Gazans to somewhere else"
Where exactly? Maybe to U.S.?
I'm sure they would prefer that, but not likely.
"Quickly send a psychiatrist to the Oval office. It's urgent."
If there hasn't been a team of them in residence constantly since Trump's first term and especially through Biden's, then America's medical system is in WAAAAAY f**kin' worse shape than it looks.
how can it look worse than it already does>
Have you ever read the book, “People of the Lie” by M. Scott Peck ? It explains Trump and. Netanyahu very well without naming them.
I have read that book. How is this akin to Dr. Peck's views? Gaza is a violent outlaw territory that has shown it is a threat to world peace. This is a perfectly logical solution, typical of population transfers after wars, such as occurred in the India-Pakistan war and WWII.
In fact, it is a sign of mental illness to keep repeating the same failed approach. Clearly Hamas will continue to seek war with Israel, so anything short of the complete dismantling of Gaza will only lead to more war – whether in a year, 10 years, or 50 years. Unlike the PLO, Hamas has not renounced violence and their goal of the complete destruction of Israel. They are also a virulently anti-Semitic group; the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are literally in the Hamas charter, and Hamas is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which took funding and inspiration from Nazi Germany in the 1930s-40s.
https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/880818a.htm
Just read the Hamas charter and tell me what you would do if you were Israel. Please explain the rational approach to those who seek to exterminate you, then we'll see who is delusional.
And you don’t think the Israelis are anti-Palestinian? The Zionist Israelis were offered land in Africa and South America but demanded Palestine. It is the Israelis that should be moved out of Palestine and not the Palestinians.
That is not a credible answer.
1. Israel does not have a constitution that calls for the destruction of the State of Palestine and the killing of Palestinians. In fact, the Israeli constitution guarantees the rights of all citizens, and Israeli Arabs have more rights and freedoms than those in any Arab country, including the West Bank, Gaza, and Jordan.
2. No one "offered" Zionists land in Africa; it was discussed among Zionists as a possible homeland for the Jews (the goal of Zionism).
3. Jews didn't "demand" Palestine. First of all, there never was a country or state called "Palestine". Second, Jews have lived in what is now Israel for thousands of years, and have been the majority in Jerusalem (the major city in the area) since the 1860s.
4. "Palestinian" leaders like Yasser Arafat have demanded that Arabs take the nation of Israel, even though he was an Egyptian, born in Cairo.
5. It is up to the state of Israel to decide who lives there – the same with every country. You do not get to decide. However, as it sounds like you agree with Hamas, you are free to move to Gaza.
6. Your remarkable level of misinformation is why Israelis ignore "world opinion".
I don't recall Trump campaigning on "We will take over the Gaza strip" during his campaign rallies. This idea sounds completely nuts.
trump is nuts
finally you realize
Crazy like a fox.
yup
No, just plain crazy.
Why not put the child abusers in charge of the Gaza campsite amidst the ruins of their once happy homes, what else can be done to radicalize what is left of the people of the holy Lands!!!!!
Epstein was Mossad.
Strange that I commented this morning on another article here that Trump probably has a vision of Gaza as the Riviera by the sea for international elites, not realizing that he actually almost said the exact thing this evening at the meeting with Bibi and the press.
I could not believe the way he talked about the "beauty, the greatness, the humane thing to do for everyone. And this evening Fox news thought it wonderful as well. Has everyone gone nuts?
Celebrating with wine, caviar, champagne on the Gaza Riviera on top of thousands and thousands of dead adults, children, babies an animals.
Didn't you make that Riviera Gaza prediction yesterday ?
Mod Knapp predicted ethnic cleansing almost as early as Oct. 7…
I don't recall predicting ethnic cleansing, especially that early.
You wrote that Israel wanted to do that. You wrote it very early, almost as if you understand Israel better than I.
If you say so. My recollection is that it was a little while before I realized it wasn’t going to be another one of the periodic “mowing the lawn” bits, and that they were about to seriously start trying to eliminate the Palestinian presence in Gaza.
I’ve seen non-Jewish whites say similarly horrible things about colonialism. So, I can’t say there’s truly a difference.
Maybe the real issue is clans and group identity in general.
I was impressed anyway. You understood what was going on way before I did.
Yes, thigns move so fast makes your head spin. But when I saw him at that press conference saying lsmost the same i said a day before I coudl not believe it. No, I am not psychic but when it comes to politics my husband always told me that I did not need to subscribe to Time Magazine (back in the Eighties) because I always said pretty much what they we talking about it before they published it.
If you live in America, you already know how to ignore the corpses buried below your feet. How many American Indians, enslaved Africans, and Chinese laborers died for your comfort? Millions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-69081352 Was Biden's idea to rebuild Gaza with "international assistance" so Hamas would not re-arm.
I wrote here that he’d probably do this. He’s against the bombings and starvation because “bad optics.” Biden was fine with those optics but wasn’t fine with ethnic cleansing.
He's not a deep thinker. Someone mentioned this to him and now he claims it's his idea.
He is repeating the criminal minster word by word after their meeting today…!
From the ethnic cleansing of Native Americans to the Palestinians of Gaza. Typical US imperial insanity.
Trump officially became a Zionist after his meeting with the criminal minister…!
Biden accepted that plan before Trump did. See:
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-69081352
I don’t see any mention of relocating Palestinians in your link.
If it's consolation (it won't be), Trump Admin dictates have NASA employees scrubbing all web pages and media handouts of references to Indigenous people & women in leadership roles !
The 'spy museum' (whatever its actual name is) was directed to cover all displays featuring women or people of color since its management assumed they all had to be "DEI hires". Only rich white guys from Ivy League colleges could possibly be spies, of course!
Virginia Hall, decorated WW2 spy and first female CIA operative, has been rebranded as Virgil Hall then ?
Trump must be removed just as much as the state of Israel.
Trump cannot be removed unless the Deep State, CIA Israel and MAGA want him removed. him removed.
You never know. He bleeds like the rest of us.
What does this do to the current deal? I mean, what's the point of the current deal? Did Trump fall on his head?
PR?
No, he just shit on the rights of the indigenous people of that land to live on that land (unless, of course, they can afford that must have piece of seaside property).
I just watched Adelson's AIPAC discourse yesterday night, what pretty much explains why Trump is Zio-President now.
Said that, it's mission impossible: the USA can't do what Israel failed at. Same for Yemen: the USA can't do what Saudi Arabia failed at either. Never mind that it could cause war with Iran and thus the total destruction of US military bases in the whole region, along with a massive oil crisis that would totally destroy the world's economy (Russia may like that, as they are major oil exporters, but China won't).
One can hope.
Gaza is to the Apartheid State of Israel what Afghanistan was to the Soviets (and then the Americans even after seeing what they funded against the USSR)
So of COURSE Trump will repeat the same experiment and expect different results.
Yemen is more like that. Gaza is a bit too small… but I see your point anyhow.
Gaza can be starved out. It’s like a concentration camp. They’re akin to prisoners.
Only if the Israelis are allowed to starve them. If Trump was really concerned about the people in Gaza, he could make sure that enough aid gets in. I mean, he says we're taking the strip so how can anyone stop him from making sure aid gets in?
That’s true. I don’t think Trump has it in him to starve them, nor to allow torture etc. In that regard he’s good, and in that regard he’s weak.
Assad could torture. Maybe Assad couldn’t lower himself to what Israel is capable of, but he could take care of business.
That’s why I’d rather just move in a conflict. I also couldn’t torture.
But just to clarify, it’s in Israel’s interests that Arabs be stupid and weak. So, those children aren’t going to be looked kindly upon if becoming successful without glorifying Israel.
Israel might see it as a sort of “mowing the lawn” to weaken them.
There’s obviously nothing genetically wrong with Arabs, but Israeli ideology says there is. So, it’s in Israeli interests to make that so.
can't make this up
I haven't seen "The Prisoner" in a while
Trump should build a bunch of casinos in the Gaza Strip so he can call it "The Strip" commercially
Hey Trumpers – this is in fact what you voted for you idiots just didn't read the fine print
They like it. And if they don't they will be ousted adn no more goodies and stuff.
Better Trump than fake humanitarian war mongers that export the transgender ideology topdown and use them among others (like media, union, students, NGOs) as foreign agents to destabilize society and topple governments.
LOL
You realise and/or understand that trans / nonbinary people are real, legitimate humans affirmed by the overwhelming consensus of medical and psychological sciences, right ?
That when these VERY real and VERY human people are treated with respect and care and can receive gender-affirming care (at any age), by ALL metrics (drug use, alcohol use, abuse, homelessness, suicide, self-harm, education, opportunities, social costs, legal costs, criminality) trans people do BETTER in every measured aspect when not treated like garbage by society ?
I mean, is the Authoritarian Right's intention to exterminate trans / GSRM people by withholding care, rights, and equality ? Because that won't work the way they think it will.
He didn't refer to transgender people. He referred to the "transgender ideology," which is no more connected to transgender people than it is to any other attribute of the real world. It's just another variant of screeching "woke" without being able to show anyone on the doll where the imaginary thing touched you.
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Former State Dept. official
@MikeBenzCyber
explains how the National Endowment for Democracy has used "tactical wokeness" to disrupt foreign elections, destabilize other countries, and incite protests abroad:
https://x.com/SystemUpdate_/status/1886796271031030018
Plan to take over Gaza was accepted by the Biden admin in 2024.
See:
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-69081352
Not an answer to Wars Russ's questions.
I don't get your point. Is someone here defending Biden? Or do you think since Biden accepted it then Trump actually doing it makes Trump blameless?
"Reading is for Leftist academics ! Trump's gonna make us all millionaires and put White Christians back on top, where we never weren't !!!"
If you elect me Governor of Gaza, I will give every Gazan a free Trump Quran and one extra if they pay $50.
An extra reward would be to meet Trumpf personally, like a golden ticke
Trump's Cabinet
Useless to unhelpful
Psycho to Sociopathic
Sniveling Sycophants
We have it all
Trump just declared war on Palestine!
Re-declared?
You never know: I don't pay much attention to what Trump says, only to what he actually does (he has such a big mouth!, then he backsteps all the time).
Americans love their forever wars
No, we don’t. The MIC, plutocrats and oligarchs do.
All of a sudden taking very Greenland seems a lot more attractive.
“America First”.
America first in the Gaza Strip
LOL!!!!
The first thing to do is laugh. Second is to decipher the nonsense. Trump thinks this is like cleaning out a poor neighborhood in NYC to make room for tall buildings and big business. He really thinks its a good idea because he thinks he can count on the Gulf states and traitor Arab states to go along and pay for it. Furthermore, if anyone has followed this person's career knows that like a good con man/actor one can only fulfill 20% of everything one says. As I said before Trump is good for the Middle East because he hastens the downfall of Israel. Abraham Accords produced October 7th. Ethnically Cleansing Gaza will bring down the Arab dictators. I only wish Trump could be voted in for a third term. Why should Biden alone have to sustain the butt of our dementia jokes?
I hope you are right. Some idiotic Republicans already jumped on x to cosign this.
Imagine that they just stopped all payments for USAID as waste (not that I support a CIA front), but then the US is supposed to pay for luxury condos for Israelis?
Exactly, that's why absurdities always fail. The looneys of the republicans and the looneys of the rightwing in Israel are fomenting extremisim to bring about chaos. However, the resulting chaos is the end of Israel and the end of the US in the Middle east. This is not a hope. It is a fact to be.
In the meantime, who is going to deliver humanitarian aid with UNRWA banned? No one can put up resistance without food and water.
I think Trump would be willing to let all of Gaza starve to get them out one way or another.
And after all this, the UN still won’t come to a final conclusion?
Choking off UNRWA is no doubt devastating in the short run. However, history tells us that gaps get filled by those who take advantage of opportunities. This stark starvation of the Palestinians will fall squarely on the Arab regimes to either solve or be swept away by a tsunami of Arab street anger. Just give it a little time. The Middle East changed after the "Arab Spring." Nothing is predictable.
The USA can't do what its local vassals have failed to do. Gaza and Yemen are off bounds for Washington: they won and retain full resistance capacity.
Make Gaza Great Again! Promises made, promises kept.
Ahem, what part of "Israel could not occupy Gaza in more than a year" did Trump not understand? Those tunnels, those fighters and those extremely good home-made weapons are still there. Yemen is also still there and comitted to back Palestinians against genocide…
Hamas did not need tunnels on 7Oct.
If Bibi really thinks Trump is going to send in US troops to fight it out with hardened and embittered Hamas fighters in Gaza he's dreaming. The last thing Trump wants is a democrat House and Senate elected in two years.
Two years ahead is too far to think about.
Did you miss this part?
Trump also said he wouldn’t rule out deploying troops to Gaza. When asked if his plan meant he would send troops, Trump said, “If it’s necessary, we’ll do that. We’re gonna take over that piece and develop it, create thousands and thousands of jobs. It will be something the entire Middle East can be very proud of.”
What if he isn't around in two years? We have to live with Vance.
AntiWar people,
Still happy about supporting Trump?
Democratic rule of law seems pretty good right about now, no?
While it’s true that some antiwar people were fooled into supporting Trump, far from all of us were.
Especially when Trump was opposed by grotesque war mongers. Thanks for your clarity.
I read about Drumpf before he descended from the elevator in 2015.
David Cay Johnson has been researching and writing about Drumpf for a long time.
Democratic rule of law seems pretty good right about now, no?
No. Actually, it seems exactly the same.
Must be in the Bible somewhere Jehovah gave it to the US of I.
Trump cultists would literally believe it if he stated that.
I have seen some of the ridiculous s**t that religious apologists can "read" out of plain-text bible verses.
In this case, they'd just need to claim "well, when the bible SAYS Egypt or Assyria conquering Judea, OBVIOUSLY it's a PROPHECY referring to the USA liberating Gaza !!"
It is bizarre.
Perfect! well done Uncle. Stone age tribal thinking.
How would you like Hamas taking over the White House mr president…?! They can use the WH tunnels…!
There's a bowling alley down there ! Who'd cause trouble when you can pick up some Spares in private ?
Now it makes sense.
Hundreds of thousands of federal jobs. cutting out some fat from. US AID, plans for the department of education and many more job cuts to come, Money is needed for Israel and the massive recinstruction of Gaza. One cannot say that Trump does not know how to find money to pay for something he wants.
And the wonderful tarrifs will be a massive tax on consumers, to raise funds and reduce federal deficit. Plenty of belt tightening ahead.
Trump is proving to be exactly what was expected — a giant wrecking ball. The political scene will have to change fundamentally to deal with the giant debris field he is leaving in his wake.
I am not sure that his maths are right. He is moving the country back into the golden age of merchantilism — but without the merchandise. He is discouraging — an understatement — other countries from selling to US. Yet, after depriving them from earning dollars, expects them to use dollars in trade.
Wants lower oil prices, which in turn will make US oil unprofitable . At $45 a barrel to produce, it is no match to Saudi $12 a barrel, and Russian $30 a barrel. And US is under moral obligation to supply oil to Europe after not so subtly discouraging them from seeking other sources.
Middle East is promising to make Ukraine a forgotten misadventure.,
We might end up living in interesting times!
Former State Dept. official
@MikeBenzCyber
explains how the National Endowment for Democracy has used "tactical wokeness" to disrupt foreign elections, destabilize other countries, and incite protests abroad:
https://x.com/SystemUpdate_/status/1886796271031030018
USAID has been doing this for decades, only the front changes.
The tariffs aren’t necessarily going into effect against Canada and Mexico. Colombia caved also.
Brazil was just revealed by Musk to have been overthrown by the US.
What name would be attached to this new country, which comprises Gaza and the West Bank?
This isn't Canada, Panama, or Greenland. Besides the Israelis and the Israelis, who would organize and preside over this new sovereign?
Decency is dead. Honor is dead. Humanity is dead.
The human race is swirling in the bowl…. We have outlived our welcome as a species.
Not with a bang, …., but with a clown show, playing to an audience light years away.
Some parts of the Human species are very honorable and admirable, for example the Palestinian and Yemeni resistance. Just because what you say applies to the USA and maybe other places it doesn't mean it applies to everyone. Humanity can live (and maybe even thrive) without the USA and its imperialist madness.
1. Fortunately, not all Humans are American GISS Army Trump Loyalists.
2. Unless they have Bracewell probes in our solar system with FTL comm systems, aliens wouldn't know any of this for decades (~4.2 years if they're camped out at Proxima) at best.
Lots of money to be made for his son-in-law Kushner, who just happens to be Jewish. Nothing to see here, move along.
Good call. Easy call, but good, nonetheless.
Welcome to the new world order – as predicted this is what is likely to happen when the stronger powers no longer feels they have to even pay lip service to the UN rules.
I really hope that the other parts of the Western world will for once try to stick to a policy of opposing Trump on this.
May Trump have the same success in this endeavor as Putin has in Ukraine.
You appear informed by US media.
How do you figure? Is Trump not doing what is claimed here and is Antiwar the US media?
Russia did not want to become involved in the Ukrainian Civil War. Even so, it is winning in Ukraine now that it was forced to help the neighbors.
yes it did
it invaded
Sure Trump is also just helping the neighbors – I only wish him the same luck.
Moscow has effective control of matters in Ukraine. What are you hoping Trump will accomplish?
Sure he has
Winning for 1060 days
The same kind of 'effective control' Russia has in Ukraine is quite enough.
The veneer has been removed.
Yes much like the thin veneer that distinguish payed work from slavery.
Hhmm…Let's see, The Panama Canal, Greenland, the 51st state of Canada, and now, GAZA! What's next? Spain? Belgium? South America?
It just occurred to me, Trump not only believes he is King of America, he also thinks he's King of the World!
Beautiful!
P.S. The INFINITE STUPIDITY of (okay, the slight majority of) American voters is BEYOND COMPREHESNION! Then there is the VAST non-voting population whose mental disposition cannot be fathomed – even by a herd of psychiatrists!!!
The 50 or so % that voted for him did so because of domestic issues and inflation. So he got several things right out of the way with Exec orders like no more tampons in boys bathrooms, no DEI instructions adn no more drag queen shows in libraries. some great photo shoots of transporting illegals by military plane and people are happy. So now it is time to conquer the world to bring in the Golden Age under the Trump banner flying in very country of the world.
Fox News applauded it tonight. Well why not they got instructions to do so. Murdoch met with Trump or will meet tomorrow hard to keep up with Trump.
Inflation was abating during the campaign months.
As long as Trump dismantles the atlantic NATO empire and EU and the sick woke ideology, the rest of the world can breathe again.
Plan to take over Gaza was accepted by the Biden admin in 2024.
Great argument.. Biden was / IS a war criminal.
So too is Nuttyahoo Just one FAA onboard EMERGENCY & OFF TO THE HAGUE……!!!!!! Even if its his own plane!!!
"woke" is stupid, not 'sick'. Its fundamental concept has its heart in the right place, but like every aspect of Political Correctness dating back to PC inception in the early 1990s, the Authoritarian Left completely f**ked up the application of decent humanist principles.
Nah, Spain is too impossible to invade. Last time it happened it was the Visigoths reigning (Napoleon doesn't count: he entered as allied force). Spain is like Iran or Turkey… or Mexico or Colombia: too montainous for US fighting style, too large for its military capacities.
Said that, as unwilling carrier of Spanish citizenship (I'm Basque), my "evil" side sorta would like to see that happening. It'd be extremely gorey but would eradicate tourism overnight, I hate tourism.
I support annexing Spain to the US.
My only requirement is that Spanish will become the official US language.
I love Basque
Can you speak it?
Didn’t I block you for being pro-nazi? Trzy means third (account), right?
Zero tolerance to fascism. Bye.
Mmmmn…lobster basque….
Did you forget that Harris supported the genocide?
And no, not a Trump voter.
Yes, both Biden and Harris, but both could no longer be used that much any more by the Deep State and CIA because of dementia of one and total cluelessness of the other.
Harris came in 4th place in the primary in her home state of California.
Not exactly a prime candidate later for POTUS.
Harris dropped out of the race long before that primary.
What choice did she have? Her husband is Imhoff, for heaven sake.
"…he also thinks he's King of the World !"
Would that Trump was on the bow of the Titanic as he proclaimed himself so…
Greed, theft, murder & displacement!!! It's abandoned! Must be up for grabs!!!!!!!!!!!
Trump got his marching order.
From Mrs. Adelson and Elon. Half a billion between them.
Clueless, heartless, ignorant, and a man without soul. Once again the Palestinian people treated as they don't exist at all and they don't have any say in the matter.
The only Democrat worth listening to on this subject. She doesn’t spare the genociders in her party:
Rashida Tlaib, U.S. Representative (D-MI)
Palestinian-American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib strongly rebuked Trump's proposal, calling it an endorsement of ethnic cleansing.
"Palestinians aren't going anywhere. This president can only spew this fanatical bullshit because of bipartisan support in Congress for funding genocide and ethnic cleansing," Tlaib said. "It's time for my two-state solution colleagues to speak up."
What does "OWN" mean? A new state? A colony? Unincorporated territory? Forever?
Handing it over to Israel after it has become its "Cote du Sang"?
Maybe Trump is back to playing 3D chess but I sure can't see our new Genocidaire in Chief's ethnic cleansing gambit an advantage to the Nobel Peace Prize.
remind me why some of you dumdums voted for him?
I didn't but I'll give you a hint. Harris.
The dumb DNC.
I’m trying to find a Houthi response. Anyone?
A strongly worded statement
Houthis act.
Some missiles
Houthis also know the difference between good and evil.
As opposed to many who only claim to know the difference between right and wrong. And the “wright” and “wrong” are merely the matter of a definition. Interchangeable. In fact, rejoicing when acting to feign to do “right” and somebody falls for it. Immediately, masks fall, and taking advantage of a sucker begins.
I love the fact that Trump has made it all nakedly clear — insuring that everyone knows in no uncertain terms that any international law, UN Resolutions or agreements with US are worthless. No longer a “sui generis” exuses, but a policy.
Trump deserves credit for saying what elites secretly advanced all along — but always wrapping it into humanutarian robes. Venerating Zeus and his powers, while wrapping it up all inside pious liberal/Christian garb.
Mr. Wrecking Ball has arrived. He does not disappoint. Oligarchy is out in the open — at least its public facing owners of US commons.
He is doing a classic oligarchic thing. Firing tens of thousands Government employees to get money for real estate redevelopment of Gaza.
Since he spent all of five minutes of his time on understanding the consequences of his Zeus-like decisions, who will clean up the debris left in the wake of this wreck?
We know who will pay. The employees and their famlies immediatelly, and taxpayer in the long run.
We see a complete inversion of reality on a daily basis. So Zeus like.
The abusers of American economy, Canada and Mexico — turn out not to be abusers when they agree to fund border guards. Till the next demand.
OK, so it is weaponizing economy narrative to get presumed security benefits.
On the other hand — the huge security risk — TikTok, went all the way to Supreme Court forcinng it to bow to the God of Security and deny the rights of users to the freedom of speach.
Then Trump turns around on a dime, and tells us how much he loooves TikTok and hopes for a good deal to buy it. Is it a security problem — or a takeover of a rival social media? Security can now wait — no biggie.
OK, so it is weaponizing security narrative for assumed profit.
No more illusions! Something to be trully thankful for!
After Tesla died Trump's uncle stole Tesla's plans for a ray gun weapon. Maybe that's how the 'relocation' of Palestinians will be enforced.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/4/7496758/
Ukrainian media.
“International expertise”
Found Russian Pantsir missile imbedded.
Haven”t we heard enough of such cheap detective stories generated frim
the same narrative factories?
And just like any cheap detective story, it has a weak plot. Fragment “imbedded”? The plane was downed by a missile shot. Such direct shots result in a instant explosion in the air, and the debris of both fall to the ground. But the plane did not go down. It instead diverted to Kazakhstan attempting unsucsessfuly to land there.
The plane was on approach to Grozny, and was low enough to come in the contact with the
Ukrainian drones attacking Russian facilities nearby. The damage was not sufficient to crash the plane. Had it been a Pantsir, either direct hit, or an explision in its proximity — plane would have been destroyed. Any other penetration of the plane’s fussilage would have brought the plane down , would have at a minimum caused a full loss of control, and little chance of diverting and attempting to land at another airport.
As for fragments of Pantsir, there are plenty of those in Ukraine to chose from.
It was a tragedy, from day one butnobody in the West cared — politics day one. Sort of like Trump in the face of the tragedy at National Airport. He taljed about DEI.
AZERBAIJAN said this, not Ukraine
Trail of Tears 2.0?
interesting that Trump has Andrew Jackson's portrait hanging in the Oval Office.
Maybe Trump will end the Fed.
“We are going nowhere"
Hamas – the group that has ruled Gaza since 2007 – called Trump’s idea “ridiculous and absurd,” warning that such proposals could ignite further conflict.
Trump's war strategy
Being on fire isn't beneficial for survival
President Trump's proposal has nothing to do with diplomacy or policy. Forget it. It is 100% about making money for Mr. Trump who wants to be the only developer of the "Strip" and thereby become richer than Elon Musk.
The dude may be dead in 3 years. His kids will not get jack. Melania will get it all. She was wise enough to update he pre-nuptial agreement.
When the mask comes off, it really comes off – wow!
Like Hitler, Trump has ripped off the veneer.
Leave it to Trump to spin mass death and destruction as a real estate opportunity
Same for the body snatcher, Jared. Look up the original movie for what the replicants look like. particularly Dana Wynter when Kevin McCarthy finds her changed. Creeped me out.
Hey, GISS Army voters who supported Trump anticipating he'd update infrastructure and create jobs : did you think he meant "in America" ? Because that's not where it's happening if this insane plan goes through.
In case it wasn't blatant enough under the last administration, the US is definitively the"Evil Empire". It's looking like BRICS+ will be the new Jedi, which is good for the world, but not so much for those of us living there in the Death Star.
Central and South America should jump ship and head to BRICS. I read that the current members are already trading between themselves.
Not only trading between themselves, but trading in **national currencies** rather than in US$. The “Petrodollar” is on its last legs, and the ossified fossils in Brainwashington are pretending that it’s not important, Frelling hell, China and Saudi Arabia are now trading in national currencies, and Iran and India are starting to do the the same. Nigeria and Venezuela have started to do it as well, and every major exporter of petroleum except for the US and Canada have either joined or are petitioning to join BRICS+.
Interesting timing:
Assaf, MD © @_Assaf_MD
It's 4am in Riyadh.
16h
They found it necessary to put this statement out.
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Reuters
REUTERS
Saudi Arabia rules out relations with Israel without establishment of Palestinian state
If US takes over and they don't leave, I am sure the Gazans will welcome the Americans with flower and candy.
Don't you want candy?
Gazans don't have anything, let alone candy.
During the blockade, Israel would not let chocolate or potato chips into Gaza.
Bow Wow Wow to you.
I once read an article by an old 1960s activist, whose name I forget, in which he claimed that congressman were more receptive to public opinion because they had to run for office every two years. He recommended writing congressman with our concerns as the most effective tool an ordinary citizen can use to inflluence public opinion.
Here is a link to help you find your congressperson: https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative ''
You may want to consider writing your congressperson and expressing opposition to Trump's Gaza plan.
Although the chances of influencing our politicians is slim, you may want to explain that Trump's plan will 1. Risk the lives of US soldiers 2. Add an additional expense to an already overburdened budget and 3. Increase the anger of the Arab and Muslim world against us which will have profound effects on oil prices, our economy, and our safety as terrorists will be emboldened.
Not saying writing a letter will have magical results but it may be worth a try.
Been there, done that. Didn't get jack.
You are right. It is a longshot.
When Money is God, nothing else matters. Norman Finkelstein: "Ripping off the veneer of civilization."
Chris Hedge said that the election was essentially between the Capitalists and the Oligarchs. The Oligarchs won.
Trump should make a bunch of casinos and hotels in Gaza
Then he can call it "The Strip"
/sarc incase it wasn't obvious
Get Stormy Daniels to promote it , lol
Hopefully, Yemen will be left alone. If the US now exits Syria, it’s an improvement.
No statement from Thomas
MasseyMassie who generally had sane takes on foreign policy?Whos that
https://massie.house.gov/
https://x.com/RepThomasMassie
Was it ever determined how did his wife die unexpectedly? Last I heard was a planned autopsy. With such family tragedy, no wonder he has no energy for this circus.
He commented on ending the board of ed.
He’s not hunkering down.
This is what I call getting high on Bibi’s fart. No munchies and a lot of condemnation.
Must have been a pretty strong fart