And military pressure to wrest Greenland from Denmark, eh?
As for renaming the Gulf of Mexico, that notion reminds me of a folk expression, that "The cat can have kittens in th' oven, but that don't make 'em [American] biscuits."
That will be to control it---and any and all oil found in its seabed, I have to suppose.
He has wanted to disband NATO; I'm thinking now he has more reasons than one and all similar although not identical....
If you haven't yet encountered it, read a book by American author Sinclair Lewis titled, "It Can't Happen Here."
He says he'd be willing to use the military in Panama and Greenland- though not against Canada- that would be too much....
I don't understand why he would want to disband NATO- when it pretty much ensures that Europe remains subject to American power and policy- but perhaps I'm missing something. I suppose I must be.
Fascism can happen anywhere. But maybe, with history to warn us, we'll be better able to resist it this time round.....
There are personalities, not all of them rich and famous or politically, ah, influential, who, owing to underlying insecurity (as a broad aspect of their own personalities) are drawn to strong-man types, to authoritarian figures, and the party under discussion is one such: Vladimir Putin wishes NATO didn't exist (very convenient world for Mr. Putin if it did not), and Mr. Trump aligns himself with strength as he perceives it.
[hangs out Sidewalk Psychologist shingle, positions visitor chair] Younger son, never did feel he pleased Daddy, wants, needs approval. And much as Mel Brooks's Frankenstein's monster states, if he couldn't inspire love, he'd inspire fear or even terror, so we have quite a bully
( ... )
They feel they have to matter, for mattering means being valued, whether they are the bully or the bullied.
Used to work with a fellow who, it was and remains my conviction, falls into this category, and he regularly treated us to his recitations on why (and how) Hitler was a great person and a fabulous leader, and so was Benito Mussolini, and various other dictatorial types; interestingly enough the Japanese were just "wrong [to have attacked Pearl Harbor]" and he sort of dismissed their Emperor and their ranking military men.
Ironically, the strong-men they admire aren't respecters of those who admirer them: what isn't given them voluntarily, those leaders simply take.
Madness.
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As for renaming the Gulf of Mexico, that notion reminds me of a folk expression, that "The cat can have kittens in th' oven, but that don't make 'em [American] biscuits."
That will be to control it---and any and all oil found in its seabed, I have to suppose.
He has wanted to disband NATO; I'm thinking now he has more reasons than one and all similar although not identical....
If you haven't yet encountered it, read a book by American author Sinclair Lewis titled, "It Can't Happen Here."
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I don't understand why he would want to disband NATO- when it pretty much ensures that Europe remains subject to American power and policy- but perhaps I'm missing something. I suppose I must be.
Fascism can happen anywhere. But maybe, with history to warn us, we'll be better able to resist it this time round.....
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[hangs out Sidewalk Psychologist shingle, positions visitor chair] Younger son, never did feel he pleased Daddy, wants, needs approval. And much as Mel Brooks's Frankenstein's monster states, if he couldn't inspire love, he'd inspire fear or even terror, so we have quite a bully ( ... )
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They feel they have to matter, for mattering means being valued, whether they are the bully or the bullied.
Used to work with a fellow who, it was and remains my conviction, falls into this category, and he regularly treated us to his recitations on why (and how) Hitler was a great person and a fabulous leader, and so was Benito Mussolini, and various other dictatorial types; interestingly enough the Japanese were just "wrong [to have attacked Pearl Harbor]" and he sort of dismissed their Emperor and their ranking military men.
Ironically, the strong-men they admire aren't respecters of those who admirer them: what isn't given them voluntarily, those leaders simply take.
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