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Gavin T's avatar

I regret to say that I haven't read more dribble in a long time. The litany of inaccuracies and outright misinformation would be difficult to find in most extreme Marxist literature. But it is probably driven by a severe does of TDS coupled with someone of late middle age who has lived a woke life with little need for pragmatic necessities.

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Pleiades's avatar

Bwaahahha rightrash snowflake gets triggered 'cos the Mango Messiah humiliated himself, his country and his retarded supporters in front of the entire world (again). It's a non-stop comedy show with you guys, every day brings another dose of cretinous verbal and textual diarrhoea from the Clown-in-Chief 🤡💩🤣

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Robert Delfs's avatar

Thank you for this, Philip.

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Simon Martin's avatar

Great piece!

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Goonbag's avatar

Phillip you have hit the nail on the head. Brilliant summation of current events.

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Nomad's avatar

Yankee go home!

Uncle Sam is a globe girdling military empire with bases here there and everywhere.

As Patrick J. Buchanan wrote in CHURCHILL, HITLER, AND "THE UNNECESSARY WAR”...

We are approaching what Walter Lippmann called “foreign pol-

icy bankruptcy.” Our strategic assets, armaments, and allies cannot

cover our strategic liabilities, our commitments to go to war on be-

half of scores of nations from Central and South America to the

Baltic and the Balkans, to the Middle East, the Gulf, Japan, South

Korea, the Philippines, Australia, and Taiwan. Like the British before Us, America has reached imperial overstretch. Either we double or

treble our air, sea, and land forces, or we start shedding commit-

ments, or we are headed inexorably for an American Dienbienphu.

For if the U.S. Army and Marine Corps are stretched to the limit by

the insurgencies in Mesopotamia and Afghanistan, how can we police the rest of the planet?

We cannot. If two or three of the IOUs we have handed out are

called in, the bankruptcy of U.S. foreign policy will be exposed to the

world.

America is as overextended as the British Empire of 1939. We

have commitments to fight on behalf of scores of nations that have

nothing to do with our vital interests, commitments we could not

honor were several to be called in at once. We have declared it to be

U.S. policy to democratize the planet, to hold every nation to our

standards of social justice and human rights, and to “end tyranny in

the world.”

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Andy Wong's avatar

There is not much I agree with Philip Bowring individually speaking, and that is coming from someone who nonetheless has been a loyal and committed contributor (in fact writer) to Asia Sentinel for years.

And yet he is absolutely right to call out the current state of affairs in the US. They have every right to retreat to their own continental shores, if it is what their domestic political calculus demands.

And yet, people like yourself should be very careful what you wish for when you ignorantly cry "Yankee Go Home", on an online news site, hosted on the Internet, still governed by American ideals of freedom of speech, all of which are deeply rooted in American global leadership.

Because nature abhors a vacuum. Yankee go home you say? I highly doubt you will like, or even survive in a world where instead of Uncle Sam, you get a Chinese Dragon or Russian Bear in charge instead.

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David McGarry's avatar

The author accuses Trump of telling plain, simple lies and then proceeds to tell a few whoppers in his latest rant on all things common sense. Please provide an example of a lie told by Trump in his speech to the UN. I don't dispute he levelled some harsh criticisms at his audience that day, but every single point was thoroughly deserved.

Allow me to take this poortunity to expose a few plain, simple lies by the author:

If Trump is genuinely hostile to everyone who isn't white, how come he chose a running mate who is married to an Indian? Why did he appoint Kash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard and Nikki Haley to important positions in his government? And Rubio isn't exactly white, either.

If Trump really has it in for people who are not Christian, how come he has such a good relationship with the Israelis?

Sharia law isn't "coming to Britain". It's already there. Sharia courts are in every major town in the country.

Millions of illegal immigrants entered America via it's southern land border during the Biden administration. Surely, that counts as an "invasion"? Those would-be illegal immigrants are not entering the USA now that Trump mis back in charge.

The only religion that Trump is hostile to is Islam. Wherever Muslims settle, they turn the place into a "shithole" (Bowing's word). How can any non-Muslim with any common sense not agree with that statement?

Trump used his speech to point out these facts to other leaders who lack the sense and/or the courage to address the problems caused by migration of Muslims.

Everyone who reads this will sooner or later be confronted by a very simple choice: you can either support the migration of Muslims into your homeland, and accept all of the consequences of that decision, or you can oppose the settlement of Muslims and actively seek their expulsion. The author makes it clear, once again, he is in favour of the Muslim invasion of civilised countries. I oppose it.

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