Politics

[Brent in Az]

Using your viewpoint Bin Laden was justified for 9/11 due to American actions in the Middle East and elsewhere as perceived by him. Extrajudicial killings are a slippery slope.

Tangent much?

 

[Hank2211]

A question and I hope it comes across as sincere, because it is.

If President Trump is so against narco-traffickers (as we all should be), what is the rationale for pardoning the former president of Honduras, who is serving a legitimate and much deserved sentence in a US jail?

 

[Brent in Az]

A question and I hope it comes across as sincere, because it is.

If President Trump is so against narco-traffickers (as we all should be), what is the rationale for pardoning the former president of Honduras, who is serving a legitimate and much deserved sentence in a US jail?

Sometimes inside information is traded for freedom. Deals like that are made all the time.
I'm not making claims that is the case, but there has to be something on the table for Trump to do something like that

 

[Tundra Tiger]

A question and I hope it comes across as sincere, because it is.

If President Trump is so against narco-traffickers (as we all should be), what is the rationale for pardoning the former president of Honduras, who is serving a legitimate and much deserved sentence in a US jail?

I had that same thought when I saw that Hank.

 

[WAB]

I had that same thought when I saw that Hank.

It really is difficult to weave a cohesive thread through his approach to foreign policy. I find the same thing with his positions on NATO, Russia and Ukraine. There must be an underlying strategy, but from where I sit it is very difficult to decipher.

 

[Saul]

It really is difficult to weave a cohesive thread through his approach to foreign policy. I find the same thing with his positions on NATO, Russia and Ukraine. There must be an underlying strategy, but from where I sit it is very difficult to decipher.

I fear there is no underlying strategy.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

It really is difficult to weave a cohesive thread through his approach to foreign policy. I find the same thing with his positions on NATO, Russia and Ukraine. There must be an underlying strategy, but from where I sit it is very difficult to decipher.

You're a much more forgiving sort good sir; I remain unconvinced there is anything remotely resembling an underlying strategy.

Oops. I see Saul beat me to it.

 

[Brent in Az]

Some backstory on Ex Honduran President Hernandez, and his ties to the Washington D.C swamp.

The rise and fall of loyal US client Juan Orlando Hernandéz | Responsible Statecraft https://share.google/TyZBAcOVbJ0IrTShL

 

[CJW]

Another peace loving Afghani just trying to blow some stuff up.

 

[spike.t]

Unbelievable surveillance.....think the have the stasi/nkvd/fsb beaten these days.....

 

[Hank2211]

Some backstory on Ex Honduran President Hernandez, and his ties to the Washington D.C swamp.

The rise and fall of loyal US client Juan Orlando Hernandéz | Responsible Statecraft https://share.google/TyZBAcOVbJ0IrTShL

Interesting. I’m not sure on balance if this makes more sense- or less - sense, but puts a possible new perspective on the issue.

 

[CJW]

This is how we should decide who gets in.

 

[Tanks]

Sometimes inside information is traded for freedom. Deals like that are made all the time.
I'm not making claims that is the case, but there has to be something on the table for Trump to do something like that

Future business deal with Trumps later on maybe?

 

[Brent in Az]

Future business deal with Trumps later on maybe?

If anything, you anti Trumpers are amusing.

 

[deewayne2003]

Yet, we hardly do anything directly about the Mexican cartels which ship a lot more drugs than Venezuela.

I think sealing the USA border has done more to shake up the corrupt establishment in Mexico than military action ever could.

When military aged men are forced to live in that state of corruption vs. being allowed to escape to the USA….. those young men grow tired of the corruption very quickly!

 

[Tanks]

Even liberal Europeans have common sense.

https://www.reuters.com/business/swiss-voters-reject-proposed-tax-super-rich-with-79-public-broadcaster-estimates-2025-11-30/

 

[mark-hunter]

Unbelievable surveillance.....think the have the stasi/nkvd/fsb beaten these days.....

This is the level, when if this happened to me, I would change my country of residence.

 

[spike.t]

Unbelievable surveillance.....think the have the stasi/nkvd/fsb beaten these days.....

And they going further.......

Councils fly drones to ‘spy on residents’ https://share.google/m3LsUr4I1Mv2Cq9de

 

[Altitude sickness]

I was planning to include a stop in London to visit gun stores and makers next year. While heading to Italy. I think I will leave that nation off my travel list until the businesses and citizens take their country back.

My little protest. I can’t justify one dollar going to fund that government. Even though I just bought a painting from Rigby. I will try to refrain in the future.

 

[VertigoBE]

I was planning to include a stop in London to visit gun stores and makers next year. While heading to Italy. I think I will leave that nation off my travel list until the businesses and citizens take their country back.

My little protest. I can’t justify one dollar going to fund that government. Even though I just bought a painting from Rigby. I will try to refrain in the future.

While I fully sympathise with this line of thinking, there are unfortunately very few top gun making houses outside of Europe. And what you see and hear about the UK, is not waiting for long in the rest of the continent.

Rather perhaps only invest into, purchase products and services from, those companies in Europe that are not aligned with the woke, green and socialist totalitarianism.