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There. Resident WHO political commentators and gurus can knock yourselves out in here and conduct your endless bickering. All other threads will be locked.
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In truth the so called international rules have been broken regularly over the years ignored by many countries in the west when they saw fit. Trump’s capturing of a tin pot dictator from a tin pot country is no big deal compared to the UK and France taking over the Suez Canal in 1956 and the he illegal invasion of Iraq in the Bush/Blair era.

Starmer referred to the restoration of democracy in Venezuela but that is not what the USA is after rather it wants a regime that is favourable to their long term interests. Be assured the USA has always had a fear of democracies within their sphere of influence.

The real problem that the other democracies of the world face is that certain leaders are feeling emboldened by the actions and words of the world’s most powerful democracy. I am confident that Trump will not get hold of Greenland but don’t be surprised if his ally in charge of Argentina gets more bullish about that county’s right to the Malvinas.
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XKhammer wrote: 06 Jan 2026, 14:21
THUNDERCLINT wrote: 06 Jan 2026, 12:53
One Sunny Day" wrote: 06 Jan 2026, 11:23 I see everyones favourite patriot, I mean traitor, Tommy Robinson, is begging a foreign rapist, Trump, to invade our country and murder our democratically elected Prime minister.
Cool.
No surprises you think rape is cool....wrong un 
Of course, you, a self confessed rapist of impoverished, disabled, 3rd World children would conclude that.

Says everything necessary about how your mind is broken.
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THUNDERCLINT wrote: 06 Jan 2026, 12:53
One Sunny Day" wrote: 06 Jan 2026, 11:23 I see everyones favourite patriot, I mean traitor, Tommy Robinson, is begging a foreign rapist, Trump, to invade our country and murder our democratically elected Prime minister.
Cool.
No surprises you think rape is cool....wrong un 
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One Sunny Day" wrote: 06 Jan 2026, 11:23 I see everyones favourite patriot, I mean traitor, Tommy Robinson, is begging a foreign rapist, Trump, to invade our country and murder our democratically elected Prime minister.
Cool.
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wils wrote: 05 Jan 2026, 21:50
XKhammer wrote: 05 Jan 2026, 21:11 We still have three more years of Trump's irrational behaviour and l think he's given up on getting the noble peace price
He's insane if he thinks he's gonna get Greenland 
He'll get Greenland and there will be nothing anyone can do about it. There will be a bunch of liberals standing up in European parliaments bleating about how America and other nations should respect the 'rules based order' and 'international law' but offer nothing at all about how they will (or can) enforce international law.

And if you think things will go back to normal when Trump's mandate is over, you need to look at the polls for 2028 JD Vance v Newsom https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/ ... -vs-newsom

Even if Vance lost. China, India and Russia have abandoned the Rules based order long ago. You can't apply international law just to the West when everyone else ignores it.

The post-war rules based order is over. There is nothing anyone can do about that. We need to think about how we survive in that world and who we build alliances with and what we have to offer to any alliance. 
Agree with you point about China,India and Russia but if you think Trump is going invade Greenland you're wrong because as thick as Trump is he knows that would finish him internationally and at home
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Fauxstralian wrote: 06 Jan 2026, 10:38 Russia are obliged to ‘protest’ but obviously won’t do anything 
Part of Trump & Putins deal
Putin gets the resources of Ukraine which they share with Trump & Trump gets Venezuela’s oil and then likely the resources of Greenland 
The final part is Trump gets his Moscow hotel piss video back & Putin helps neutralise the Epstein evidence
Game over
And there's me thinking the conspiracy theorists loons were just the thicko naive right wing bible bashers
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I see everyones favourite patriot, I mean traitor, Tommy Robinson, is begging a foreign rapist, Trump, to invade our country and murder our democratically elected Prime minister.
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Russia are obliged to ‘protest’ but obviously won’t do anything 
Part of Trump & Putins deal
Putin gets the resources of Ukraine which they share with Trump & Trump gets Venezuela’s oil and then likely the resources of Greenland 
The final part is Trump gets his Moscow hotel piss video back & Putin helps neutralise the Epstein evidence
Game over
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Referring to the Maduro thing Russia's ambassador, Vassili Nebenzia, accused the US of "international banditry" and "neo-colonialism and imperialism".

ag ag ag ag irony not a thing in Russia?
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XKhammer wrote: 05 Jan 2026, 21:11 We still have three more years of Trump's irrational behaviour and l think he's given up on getting the noble peace price
He's insane if he thinks he's gonna get Greenland 
He'll get Greenland and there will be nothing anyone can do about it. There will be a bunch of liberals standing up in European parliaments bleating about how America and other nations should respect the 'rules based order' and 'international law' but offer nothing at all about how they will (or can) enforce international law.

And if you think things will go back to normal when Trump's mandate is over, you need to look at the polls for 2028 JD Vance v Newsom https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/ ... -vs-newsom

Even if Vance lost. China, India and Russia have abandoned the Rules based order long ago. You can't apply international law just to the West when everyone else ignores it.

The post-war rules based order is over. There is nothing anyone can do about that. We need to think about how we survive in that world and who we build alliances with and what we have to offer to any alliance. 
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Meanwhile back in the UK the Palestinian embassy was opened. We now have a terrorist organisation set up in London with the government’s approval.
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We still have three more years of Trump's irrational behaviour and l think he's given up on getting the noble peace price
He's insane if he thinks he's gonna get Greenland 
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Come On You Irons" wrote: 05 Jan 2026, 07:20 So Trump is now setting his sights on annexing Greenland next.

I'm no lefty, but Trump's behaviour is becoming very unhinged to me. It's concerning that he wants to annex a part of sovereign European territory. He's no better than Putin if he does.
Sovereign NATO territory at that.
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all about the petro-dollar innit.

the US cannot allow the chance of 300bn barrels being sold in anything other than USD. 
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XKhammer wrote: 04 Jan 2026, 19:58
only1billybonds wrote: 04 Jan 2026, 19:38 I have no axe to grind with either Ox or XK but fuck me, can't a day go by without the same accusations and insults being traded?

I reckon they must be best mates away from here and have concocted a routine to see how much they can bore/ piss off the rest of us.
There can be no other explanation as to why two adults would keep this up day after day, going round in the same circles.
Would be so easy to ignore one another or communicate privately but they seem determined to play this nonsense out in full view of the rest of us.
Very fucking odd.
Who said we was adults?
The raspberries you raped in Cambodia certainly weren't.
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Trump invades Venezuela & kidnaps their oil … I mean President … & Starmer the KC can’t say if that’s in breach of international law
View must be difficult with your head up Trumps arse

Greenland next
Obviously part of a Carrick deal with Putin 
We will let you invade Ukraine & take their resources & you let us take Venezuela 
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Come On You Irons" wrote: 05 Jan 2026, 07:20 So Trump is now setting his sights on annexing Greenland next.

I'm no lefty, but Trump's behaviour is becoming very unhinged to me. It's concerning that he wants to annex a part of sovereign European territory. He's no better than Putin if he does.
If Trump's got any sense (which I seriously doubt) he'll do a "Hong Kong" on Greenland, leasing just enough to build a couple of fuck-off airfields and deep water harbours.

He knows money talks and will use that as a leverage.
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So Trump is now setting his sights on annexing Greenland next.

I'm no lefty, but Trump's behaviour is becoming very unhinged to me. It's concerning that he wants to annex a part of sovereign European territory. He's no better than Putin if he does.
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Australia is fucked Sydney. Let in to many undesirables who jump up and down when an incident occurs in their mother country. You should have gone down and give them a good kicking. 
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Made me laugh watching Aussie news and they covered some protesters at Sydney's Town Hall against the American strikes and abductions in Venezuela, strange thing was that most of them had keffiyeh's? 🤣, I didn't realise that they wore these in Venezuela...................😕

They also had a counter protest that supported what occurred, so Police kept the 2 sides apart, these people were chanting in Spanish and had Venezuelan shirts and flags, none of which the other side had!!!Do these extreme lefties types realise how stupid they look by doing this? 
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In that case, its way past your bedtime!
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only1billybonds wrote: 04 Jan 2026, 19:38 I have no axe to grind with either Ox or XK but fuck me, can't a day go by without the same accusations and insults being traded?

I reckon they must be best mates away from here and have concocted a routine to see how much they can bore/ piss off the rest of us.
There can be no other explanation as to why two adults would keep this up day after day, going round in the same circles.
Would be so easy to ignore one another or communicate privately but they seem determined to play this nonsense out in full view of the rest of us.
Very fucking odd.
Who said we was adults?
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Sorry but I did chuckle.
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I have no axe to grind with either Ox or XK but fuck me, can't a day go by without the same accusations and insults being traded?

I reckon they must be best mates away from here and have concocted a routine to see how much they can bore/ piss off the rest of us.
There can be no other explanation as to why two adults would keep this up day after day, going round in the same circles.
Would be so easy to ignore one another or communicate privately but they seem determined to play this nonsense out in full view of the rest of us.
Very fucking odd.
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XKhammer wrote: 04 Jan 2026, 18:41
Mike Oxsaw" wrote: 04 Jan 2026, 18:12
XKhammer wrote: 04 Jan 2026, 17:53
Is that the same way you feel about the mud hut in the poverty stricken village near the Cambodian border now a few bombs and missiles flying around? 
Why would it not be?
Well could be a bit dodgy for an old creepy trannie raspberry like you,l mean the risk of your wheelchair going over a landmine or a missile taking out your mud hut
I'm concerned for you
No need to project the fact that you'd be shit scared living in such a volatile area. You should visit, find out for yourself what it's like rather than relying on the Daily Mail educating you. You may actually get to meet a real-life ladyboy, too. What's not to like?

My village is only 80 minutes drive from the (currently closed) Cambodian border and certainly well within range of their rockets. Ho-Hum, as they say.

None of their mine-laying teams have ventured this far yet, although there was a drone incident at the local airport the other night. Hasn't stopped the regular flights to/from Bangkok though, and the new airport terminal opens in about 6 weeks.

In fact, apart from a swathe of new buildings appearing, it's still as a peaceful place to be as it was the last time I was here.

Dodgy? Not a bit of it. Fun? 100%.
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