Yes that is the problem, Trump is 100% transactional, he stands for nothing but what benefits him. He has absolutely zero morals.

As Trump said about Starmer:

I guess our relationship isn’t what it used to be.

You are goddam right it isn’t you malignant sociopath. And it’s all 100% your fault, and the Americans that voted for you twice!

But they USA help Ukraine, a democracy that has been absolutely non hostile, gave up their nukes on a promise, and was attacked by Russia that is clearly an enemy to USA, the west and democracy.

But they can help Israel against a country that was willing to negotiate?!

USA is a despicable country, that has abandoned all values and their peaceful allies. To support a regime that has been extremely hostile towards their neighbors for more than half a century, and is committing genocide in Gaza. That’s the one USA chooses to help!

That’s a possibility too.

Starmer had issued his strongest rebuke yet of Trump’s action in Iran, saying the UK did not believe in “regime change from the skies”

Fuck yes. I had a bad feeling when USA was allowed to use UK bases in the region for “defense”.
But it turns out he was actually serious. Hurray for that, let USA fix their own mess for once.

We all remember the mistakes of Iraq, and we have learned those lessons. Any UK actions must always have a lawful basis,

Absolutely fucking YES! to this too. We don’t need to repeat of the illegal invasion of Iraq based on false US intelligence.
Apart from that Trump didn’t even try to make a case for plausible deniability.

I’m not from UK, when I say we, I mean Europe and NATO. The British can be proud of their PM today. 👍 😀

Nice bit of sunshine today where I live, so I’ll charge our EV with surplus power from our solar panels. 🤣

Yep, attacking Iran immediately caused oil prices to increase dramatically.
A much needed aid to the Russian economy. Putin is 100% sure OK with Trump doing this. One phone call and Putin could probably have stopped it.

The Steele Dossier P tapes, were probably not about pee but pedophilia.
I bet Russia has those tapes, and they can get Trump in prison.

That’s just the beginning. Soon scientists won’t be allowed at all. And the new task of the agency will be to restrict science across USA.

As long as it’s not benign, that would be awful.

Good. Amazon is a threat to democracy. Together with Facebook and Xai, they are among the biggest threats to democracy.

It’s the religiously insane thing to do, so not surprising for USA.

I sure hope it’s something serious, thoughts and prayers. 🙏

So many came out to back up and defend Gillibrand even after it turned out what she started was a HUGE mistake, and she never pulled back or apologized AFAIK!
Complete scumbag politician, sacrificing one of her own in an attempt to get ahead, and she is fucking still in congress, it’s disgusting. 🤮

Yes, but election fraud is just another part of the problem. Not only was the fraud made, the election result was accepted despite of it. It doesn’t really change much. A president can be elected without a majority vote, and usually are when it’s republicans.
The system has been made less democratic since the 70’s instead of more. A bit of election fraud is no different than gerrymandering.

Yes of course, it was not all rainbows and sunshine, but there was a sentiment of progress, and mostly everything improved A LOT during the 70’s.
And Carter was all for renewable energy, and when Reagan took over, that too ended. Renewable energy = less wars to control the oil.

If you are denying that Carter was better, and even the American population was better in the 70’s, we have nothing to talk about.

Yes some are resisting, but not enough and the resistance is 100% ineffective.
It hasn’t stopped Trump doing anything, including ICE shooting people in the face, destroying the economy, undermining NATO, helping Russia against Ukraine.
Trump has 100% control of the executive branch, the most dangerous and powerful part of US government. And he does as he wishes, and nobody is stopping him.
Even worse 40% of the population still support him! It’s not just Trump that is the problem, it’s the majority of the American population.

I’m from EU, but I’ve generally been impressed with Carney, but on this he completely misses the point IMO.
Although Iran is awful, supporting terrorism and oppressing their own population, this attack on Iran is not the way to do it.
Especially without a plan on how this is supposed to be finished! This attack is just destructive, and has no happy ending in sight.

I want USA to go back to the optimism and softer values like democracy and human rights 70’s style.
I know everything was not perfect, but back then we admired USA for their industry and innovation, and the moon landing was an inspiration to all, and the fact that NASA acknowledged it as an achievement of humanity.
Back then it looked like USA was a country that strived to progress, but then Reagan happened, and everything began to reverse, and when Bush was elected twice, it was evidence the American spirit that we loved was gone completely. Even Obama wanted to continue illegal intelligence, and military drone attacks into Pakistan.

Obama may have seemed progressive, but in reality he wasn’t really, he was just not as big a problem as the Republicans.

Jimmy Carter was the last good president of USA. After that it’s just been varying degrees of bad.

I agree Russia is out of resources, and can’t afford to “waste” any.
Still if Iran was still an important supplier as you claimed earlier, taking down a few Israeli missiles would go a long way to make Trump reconsider, and possibly to create more opposition in USA against the war.
I maintain that Putin actually wants this to help the struggling Russian economy. And if Putin didn’t want it, he could have stopped Trump with a phone call.

Iran asked Russia for help,using the Russian S400 systems they have stationed in Syria, to help defend against Israeli missiles.
The response from Russia, was to shut down the S400 systems, to prevent them from being a target.

So very clearly no aid is coming from Russia, and I think part of the reason is that this is what Putin want.