- “Trump has just handed smug, global elites their worst defeat since Brexit” – Trump’s resounding triumph is a total repudiation of the Left’s brand of politics – and a disaster for Starmer, says Allister Heath in the Telegraph.
- “Britain must now roll out the red carpet for Donald Trump” – In the Telegraph, Nigel Farage promises to do everything in his power to bridge the divide between the Starmer Government and the President-elect.
- “Chagos deal in doubt after Trump victory” – Trump is set to stop Britain’s deal to give away the Chagos Islands when he returns to the White House following criticism from Republicans, reports the Telegraph.
- “Britain’s growth forecast slashed on Trump win” – Goldman Sachs has slashed its forecast for British and European economic growth next year amid fears Trump will slap taxes on imported goods from around the world, says the Telegraph.
- “Kemi Badenoch demands Starmer says sorry to Trump” – Kemi Badenoch slammed Keir Starmer, Foreign Secretary David Lammy and other senior Labour figures for their comments about the President-elect in her debut at PMQs, reports the Mail.
- “A Trump victory is awful for Starmer – and a nightmare for David Lammy” – Labour’s hubris may have irreparably destroyed our relationship with the only pro-British U.S. President in decades, says Tom Harris in the Telegraph.
- “Lammy will remain Foreign Secretary despite Trump criticism, insists No.10” – Keir Starmer has vowed to keep David Lammy as Foreign Secretary for at least five years despite his embarrassing jibes at Donald Trump, reports the Mail.
- “This is Joe Rogan’s America now” – Trump’s victory was owed in no small part to his interview with podcast superstar Joe Rogan, writes Poppy Coburn in the Telegraph.
- “Revenge of the silent male voter” – This election was a victory for a way of seeing the world that many thought dead: one where individual achievement matters, where male ambition serves a purpose and where great men still shape the course of history, says Claire Lehmann in Quillette.
- “How Donald Trump has defied his critics to crush his opponents again” – Trump’s resounding election victory is far more comprehensive than anyone had predicted, as he rode a wave of support from black and Latino voters to retake the White House, reports the Mail.
- “Donald Trump’s triumph among minority voters is a nightmare for the Left” – Trump’s surge in support among Latinos, in particular, will shake progressives to their foundations, writes Sherelle Jacobs in the Telegraph.
- “The delight of seeing Harris lose” – It’s incredible how the Democrats seem to have repeated all the mistakes they made in 2016, says Paul Sutton on Substack.
- “Kamala Harris ran the worst presidential campaign in modern American history” – Despite the fawning celebrity patronage, the media sycophancy and favourable news coverage – Harris ran the most dreadful campaign in modern presidential history, writes Camilla Tominey in the Telegraph.
- “Tears, anxiety and no Kamala Harris: inside her election party” – By the time it was confirmed that Kamala Harris would not be turning up to her own election night party, many of her supporters had already got the message, says Damian Whitworth in the Times.
- “Trump’s triumph is a profound humiliation for the cult of ‘diversity’” – It was obvious a long time ago that the Democratic nominee wasn’t up to the job. Now voters have confirmed it, writes Annabel Denham in the Telegraph.
- “The woke Left have no right to wail about Trump’s win. It’s all their own fault” – U.S. voters are sick of the sanctimonious midwits who refuse to learn the lesson of the 2016 election, says Michael Deacon in the Telegraph.
- “The reason Kamala Harris lost” – The idea that American voters would be steered by anything other than their own personal economic circumstances was foolish, writes Ross Clark in the Spectator.
- “Elon Musk’s bet on Trump has paid off spectacularly” – The Tesla chief’s $130 million investment has already repaid itself several times over – and now he has the President’s ear, says James Titcomb in the Telegraph.
- “Trump’s legal woes to vanish following election” – Trump’s criminal cases are expected to disappear with his imminent return to the White House, reports the Telegraph.
- “Grieving families face 90% inheritance tax raid on pensions” – Rachel Reeves has set a “bear trap” for grieving families by effectively taxing them 90% on an inherited pension, says the Telegraph.
- “The Tories have finally found their firebrand” – With Ms. Badenoch holding the Government to account, the interlude of softly-spoken politeness is well and truly over, writes Patrick O’Flynn in the Telegraph.
- “Twenty jailed for non-recent child sexual abuse in Calderdale” – Twenty men have been jailed for more than 219 years after being found guilty of raping and abusing young girls, according to West Yorkshire Police.
- “Trump’s victory and climate policy” – The U.S. election, though not explicitly about climate, may go down as a turning point for climate policy itself, says Charles Rotter in WUWT?
- “Fintan Slye outfoxes mad Miliband on clean power by 2030” – A Net Zero grid by 2030 is only achievable if Miliband believes six impossible things before breakfast, writes David Turner on his Eigen Values Substack.
- “‘Hijacked by lunatics’: the new National Trust initiative that has left members fuming” – A plan to ensure half the produce in the National Trust’s food outlets is vegan has enraged long-standing supporters, writes William Sitwell in the Telegraph.
- “Trump’s top healthcare priority must be repealing Big Pharma’s legal immunity for vaccines” – Other products do not have absolute lawsuit protection; why should vaccines be any different? asks Alex Berenson on his Substack.
- “Boris Johnson aide behind Partygate scandal to be honoured at Windsor Castle” – A former prime ministerial aide who arranged a bring-your-own-booze garden party during coronavirus restrictions is to receive an honour at Windsor Castle, reports the Irish Times.
- “German Government collapses after Scholz sacks Finance Minister” – Germany’s Free Democratic Party, until today a member of Germany’s governing “traffic light” coalition, has announced it is withdrawing all ministers from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Government, according to DW.
- “Girl with suspected autism banned for asking transgender opponent: ‘Are you a man?’” – According to the Mail, a 17 year-old autistic female footballer has received a six-game ban after asking a transgender player with a beard: “Are you a man?”
- “Donald Trump and Olympics on collision course over transgender ban vow” – Trump is on a collision course with the International Olympic Committee over its gender eligibility criteria after regaining the presidency, reports the Telegraph.
- “Emily Atack says past drunken sexual encounters with men were rape” – Actress Emily Atack has opened up about her “uncomfortable” sexual experiences, reflecting on drunken encounters that she views as rape, says the Mail.
- “‘Tonight is a very, very devastating body blow’” – On The Rest Is Politics podcast, Rory Stewart admits he botched his U.S. election prediction because he’s just too nice.
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Indeed one should be under no illusions.
However it’s arguable that the USA treats its own citizens better than Russia does its own citizens – rule of law is stronger, and basic freedoms are better protected. The same could be said for other liberal democracies (though any advantage we have is fading fast, accelerated by the covid folly and evil). I’m not arguing however that this justifies actions this alliance takes around the world to protect its interests, just that it could be argued it’s perhaps less immoral to do business with the USA than it is with Russia – but then is it less immoral to do business with China, or Saudi Arabia?
…just that it could be argued it’s perhaps less immoral to do business with the USA than it is with Russia – but then is it less immoral to do business with China, or Saudi Arabia?
Try telling the US not to do business with those three countries and it would laugh in your face. Lots of thing could be argued, but sometimes it’s best not to bother.
Conquest and plunder. Twas ever thus.
Also note that the USA spent about $2T on the war — at least a fair proportion of this money went to all sorts of dubious entities in the USA. The population of the USA will be paying for this for decades (probably via inflation).
The UK is similar (except that the money spent also goes to all sorts of dubious entities in the USA).
Correct. After 20 years of occupation, Afghans are no better off, and Western tax-payers are worse off. The main parties who benefited are Western defence contractors and Afghan warlords.
Do you have any evidence for your assertion that Western defence contractors benefited.
There would have been business in certain consumables but those would have had, in any case, a limited shelf life.
The increase in defence spending by the U.S. over the last twenty years has resulted, predominantly, from renewed tensions with Russia and China. Defence Companies were required to produce enhanced capability systems, the effectiveness of which are now being seen in the drubbing dished out every day to Russian forces in Ukraine
The war in Iraq also played a role, much more so than the war in Afghanistan, but the big five contractors didn’t make a lot of money from the fighting—most of which was conducted with drones, helicopters, armoured vehicles, and rifles.
Most of the money spent on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were for personnel, training, and health care.
Also note that the U.S. voters were right behind their government in making the intervention in Afghanistan.
And British voters were right behind their government in assisting the U.S.
Pretty much everything which is said about Russia can be said about Ukraine. It was corrupt and authoritarian, firing missiles and artillery shells into civilian areas in the East of the country prior to Feb 2022. The scale and destruction is bigger now, but Ukraine is far from being innocent if you take into account their tactics confirmed by Amnesty Int. There is also plenty of evidence of civilians saying that Ukrainian troops apart from positioning their military equipment in the residential areas also prevented evacuation and even firing directly at and killing people. So this quoted report by UN shouldn’t be taken uncritically. Especially that opinions of the majority of international organizations are far from unbiased and skewed heavily to the US/West point of view bar some rare exceptions, like said AI report. If Russia are not the good guys, end of story, then you can’t explain why people cross the border to the Russian controlled territory as recent CNN video unwillingly revealed.
This is not to dispute that civilians are dying from Russian shelling which is of course a tragedy. It just gives a bit more colors to the black and white picture which is being painted by every MSM outlet and even DS, apart from odd articles of Noah Carl (kudos for that).
‘US standing up to Russia’ idea is seriously flawed. US is not fighting Russia risking destruction and deaths of its own citizens. What it does rather is selling weapons to Ukraine and NATO members on an unimaginable scale. It also got European LPG market all for itself now.
But it’s a lot harder to control the masses if you don’t prevent them from seeing things in anything other than black and white…
The problem I see is in the use of typical phrases like “the US is good”, “Russia are rhe bad guys” and “the US is the richest country in the world”.
The actions of the US government or the US military are actions decided by a small group.of people. Same goes for Russia.
These wars and conflicts are fights between the ruling elites of countries into which the populations are dragged in to be played like chips on a casino table.
Leaders rile us up and drag us in. Biut in the end all the spoils go to the elites and the cost paid by the suckered population.
That is how it has always been.
Regarding the US being the richest nation in the world, I don’t even know what that means. Iit’s governemnt certainly has the biggest debt in the world. Are the people the richest? I don’t know.
This bundling of millions of people into simple catch all phrases for the purpose of making things more readable and understandable perpetuate a sense that nations are.monolothic in their actions and responsibilities. And they just aren’t.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220810-economists-urge-us-to-return-afghanistan-s-frozen-assets
“We are deeply concerned by the compounding economic and humanitarian catastrophes unfolding in Afghanistan, and, in particular, by the role of US policy in driving them,” 71 economists and development experts said in a letter to US President Joe Biden and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
“Without access to its foreign reserves, the central bank of Afghanistan cannot carry out its normal, essential functions,” they wrote.
we should not forget Syria where US occupies oil rich parts of the country.
https://mronline.org/2022/08/16/u-s-troops-loot-84-oil-tankers-from-syria-smuggle-them-into-iraq/
Yes there is a lot of evidence from various sources. The USA invade, occupy and plunder…..but apparently they are the good guys?. I think less and less people are buying it…..
I’d hope that people did their own research, but you can’t underestimate propaganda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trpiChRRnZE
Irish MEP Clare Daly: Multilateralism Means Like-Minded Partners Forming A Club…
Let us not forget that the United States Armed Forces, in alliance with this country, participated in the defeat of Germany in both World Wars and that of Japan in the second of those wars.
The people of Kuwait have also not forgotten their liberation by a coalition led by the USA in 1991.
Kosovo would not exist without the USAF.
Nation States, national governments, have no principles as we have seen over the last two years.
Democracy: the least worst form of government.
As cynical as it may sound, there really are NO good guys, just varying shades of evil it seems.
Did the Taleban really expect to get all that top-class, 21st century weapony for nothing?
‘there can be no justification for firing missiles and artillery shells into civilian areas, racking up thousands of casualties’
Noah, you should watch UK Column news. There you would hear, from the many independent sources they access, that Ukraine has purposely been using civilian buildings (eg schools, hospitals) and areas so that Russia has been forced to aim at them. And the figures about civilians being killed are not what they seem. I am sure you can’t be believing the MSM figures and reporting. You need to watch UK Column’s news on a regular basis to get an objective and true picture. I am by no means saying that Putin is an angel of light, but things aren’t what they seem. And Ukraine has committed just the atrocities you mention against the Donbas region for many years (since 2014 at least). As well as other stuff.