I and probably tens millions in the US are absolutely stunned:
Even Laura Ingraham, a Fox News staunch supporter, was near speechless in shock!
You beat me to it, Larry!
However, Jesse Watters is calling him "MAGA of the Mediterranean" with guests on telling us how Trump is out to make the world a better place.
I'm feel increasingly bad for permanent Trump defenders that have to increasingly ramp up the delusional justifications for blatantly counterproductive, damaging, loony tunes dictatorship type moves that in just 2 weeks, have exceeded anything that even his biggest critics claimed he would do.
I thought the move with Canada last week was an unprecedented huge blunder that exceeded any of his previous blunders in foreign affairs. The worst unprovoked, unforced error that I know of in foreign affairs for a leader of the United States.
This one, rather than doing similar damage is just going to help decimate Trumps credibility in the eyes of those that wanted to give him a chance.
THE US CAN hit Canada with 25% tariffs, so that threat was real and very serious..........and it just turned many of the 40 millions residents of this wonderful country to our north, strongly against him and did PERMANENT damage to the relationship with our closest ally.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/109807/
However, the US ABSOLUTELY CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES-OTHER THAN CONQUERING IT IN A WAR-JUST TAKE OVER ANOTHER COUNTRY AGAINST THEIR WISHES.
Trump just made a declaration that he's taking over Gaza(to clean it out), then, as he put it, after he fixes it up nicer then before "The World can move back in"
Not Palestinians or people that he kicked out(which is part of what defines ethnic cleansing/genocide) but "The World".
He made these announcements a short while ago with his Muslim hating, genocidal partner in crime, Prime Minister Netanyahu next to him and approving all of it.
Netanyahu has likely had this strategy in his dreams since the horrific, Oct. 7 attacks took place on Israel....... for cramped Israel to be able to take over this land and replace Palestinians with his people in Gaza all along.
The IDF already did much of the dirty work for Trump. The people in Gaza have no way to fight back. Something like 8% of the population has been killed or seriously injured.
Much of the country has already been destroyed. They no longer have homes. The hospitals and schools have been destroyed. They are severely deprived of water, food and medical care. They have no electricity to power anything, including heat in the Winter or AC in the Summer. They don't have fuel or vehicles and must walk everywhere. They have no jobs. The children can't be educated.
People are not just dying from bombs. They are starving to death and all sorts of infectious diseases are spreading, especially because they are being surrounded by human waste.........urine, feces and trash. 10s of thousands of bodies are still buried under the ruble.
Trump just wants to herd all of them like cattle into Jordan and Egypt(despite all in those parties vehemently objecting).
Then he takes over Gaza, fixes it up and invites back people that Netanyahu and Trump want there. ...NOT the current residents.
Unlike what he threatened to do to Canada, which was serious as a heart attack, this is so absurd that it has an hilarious side to it as it exposes the extremely pathological mindset of Trump more than anything.
I already spent some time describing Trump's personality/mind set in several threads here:
Trump 7-26-24
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/106215/
Getting elected by a big margin of victory just fed his pathological, mental illness(gave him positive reinforcement, instead of psychiatric treatment for his illness).
Yes, I admit that I voted for him.
Biden/Harris WERE THAT BAD!
Thanks, Mike.
Yeah, I don’t see how taking over Gaza (should he somehow really go through with this) would be consistent with “America First” and staying out of wars?