Tag: trump

Russia Does NOT Want You to Know the Truth About Their Nukes

Posted on by Lone Candle

Putin doesn’t want to use nuclear weapons. If he did, he risks the destruction of his country. Putin, like the Soviet Union in history, uses nuclear weapons as bluster to threaten countries whose leaders and people believe the likelihood of Russia using nukes is higher than it is. Trump is scared. He’s happy to use or threaten military force against countries without nukes, but Russia invades its neighbor in a war of conquest while committing many atrocities, and Trump is obsessed with peace, even, at times, weakening support to Ukraine to appease Putin. Letting Russia gain things with nuclear threats increases the incentive for other countries to get nukes, and one of those countries may be more willing to actually use them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUspOj8Ee0

The End of the American Empire | The David Frum Show

Posted on by Lone Candle

On the international stage, the United States is acting like brash huns, its president receiving gifts of gold as countries complement him and shower him in gifts in hopes of corruption as they beseech Trump to lift tariffs. In the short term, the U.S. has higher taxes on goods they import and difficulty selling abroad where foreign countries tariff back and where tariffs on imports into the U.S. make U.S. goods more expensive. In the long term, the U.S. reputation is tarnished and countries may never trust the country again as the country already elected Trump twice, and may always elect another one in the future. A world where the United States can’t be trusted is a worse world for the United States and Americans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb_2J7-Es6g

Why Republicans are worried about Trump’s plans to split the Education Department

Posted on by Lone Candle

“The Trump administration announced Tuesday it would work to shutter the department by transferring critical responsibilities to other federal agencies. The plan revolves around a series of agreements that spread responsibility for administering tens of billions of dollars in school-related spending across the federal government.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/why-republicans-are-worried-about-trumps-plans-to-split-the-education-department-00658588

BREAKING: Trump CALLS FOR DEATH over THIS!

Posted on by Lone Candle

Trump threatens to jail Democratic lawmakers for saying that troops should not follow illegal orders, even though that is true, military men and women shouldn’t follow orders that are illegal. Threatening to jail lawmakers for such statements is yet another dent in U.S. Democracy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ0RTOYhqKs

Update from Ukraine | Betrayal! Secret Talks to Force Ukraine for defeat

Posted on by Lone Candle

In secret talks, the Trump administration has been talking with Russia about Ukrainian capitulation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMZqRmMvBnY

Trump defends Saudi crown prince, who US intelligence found ordered killing of Washington Post columnist

Posted on by Lone Candle

“Asked by a reporter about Khashoggi’s murder during a press conference in the Oval Office, Trump defended the crown prince — who minutes earlier had pledged to increase his past commitment of $600 billion in investments in the U.S. to $1 trillion.

“He’s done a phenomenal job,” Trump said of Mohammed, adding: “Things happen, but he knew nothing about it.”

And, referencing Khashoggi, the president also seemed to offer an explanation for his murder: “a lot of people didn’t like that gentleman,” he said.

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Moments later, he went further and suggested that ABC should lose its broadcasting license over the reporter’s question.

It was not the first time Trump made excuses for Khashoggi’s murder, something he also did in 2018. And it followed the president praising Mohammed for his record on “human rights” and declaring that he and the Saudi crown prince have “always been on the same side of every issue.””

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/trump-defends-mbs-saudi-arabia-00656679?utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=RSS_Feed

Trump elevates Saudi Arabia to ‘major non-NATO ally’ status

Posted on by Lone Candle

“In addition to easing weapons transfers, the agreement will open Saudi Arabia as a location to store U.S. weapons, and make the country eligible to bid on Pentagon maintenance and repair contracts and purchase depleted uranium ammunition.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/trump-saudi-arabia-ally-00658467