Are we watching an empire collapse in real time?

[T1 Terry]

His main source of income now seems to be suing people and organisations.

Is that the new US term for accepting bribes? He backs down big time when anyone pulls the court hearing card, he can't handle being humiliated and then defeated on public record, so he avoids court hearing at any cost.
I doubt he could find anyone silly enough to represent him these days anyway, he never pays and quite a few of them have had their reputations shredded by offer "alternate facts" as evidence without ever actually verifying these "facts" are correct and getting a number of independent reliable sources to back up these "facts" in writing to the court ....

I can see a number of countries simply expropriating any Trump assets once he his dragged from his throne and seizing any assets for lack of payment .... even if they have to do a Trump and fabricate a bill ......
As for him finding a safe haven to run away and hide from his crimes ..... who would want him in their country when he can't do anything for them or apply any sort of pressure against them ......

T1 Terry

 

[mGizmo]

Is that the new US term for accepting bribes?

The word you're looking for is "extortion".

It's basically the only "business practice" Trump actually understands.

 

[Gomev]

Is that the new US term for accepting bribes? He backs down big time when anyone pulls the court hearing card, he can't handle being humiliated and then defeated on public record, so he avoids court hearing at any cost.
I doubt he could find anyone silly enough to represent him these days anyway, he never pays and quite a few of them have had their reputations shredded by offer "alternate facts" as evidence without ever actually verifying these "facts" are correct and getting a number of independent reliable sources to back up these "facts" in writing to the court ....

I can see a number of countries simply expropriating any Trump assets once he his dragged from his throne and seizing any assets for lack of payment .... even if they have to do a Trump and fabricate a bill ......
As for him finding a safe haven to run away and hide from his crimes ..... who would want him in their country when he can't do anything for them or apply any sort of pressure against them ......

T1 Terry

Let's hope you are right, he is suing the BBC and they are going to take it to court.

 

[siteguru]

The BBC should refer him to the response that would have been given in the case of Arkell v Pressdram, should that case have gone to a hearing.

 

[T1 Terry]

This view on a recent complete bungle by the current US govt, tells the story only to well regarding the US fall from the mighty empire it thought it once was

Fancy being stupid enough to threaten the place the houses the US eyes and ears in this part of the world ..... they couldn't even do the Moon mission without Australia how do they think they can cover their butts without Australia's cooperation ....

T1 Terry

 

[T1 Terry]

I recently listened to an interesting podcast from BBC More or Less regarding Venezuelan 'oil'. Apparently it is actually a tar like substance that is difficult to extract and process and its proven reserves rely on an oil price around $120 a barrel to be viable. The infrastructure is in dire need of updating and only a few countries have the refineries that deal with it so it will be hard to finance its exploitation. Given the relative glut of oil at present, the Saudis could easily cause it to be difficult to sell.

Could this be the real reason behind the latest war he has started? Push up the price of oil to improve the sell price for the stuff they pump out of the ground in the US and make it worth the money for US Big Oil to rebuild the Venezuelan oil infrastructure .... and help out him mate Putin with his financial problems ......

T1 Terry

 

[T1 Terry]

Seems Trump, Vance and the TV presenter come minister for war, have "really screwed the pooch" this time.
No one will come and help him clear the straits of Hormuz after Trump posted on his social media site that lot of countries are getting involved, even more embarrassment for the big round orange man .... it now seems, no country is interested in cleaning up the mess he has made ...

I guessing they are hoping Iran will see they are not supporting Trump and might let some of their ships through .... on the condition that none of it goes to the USA .....

T1 Terry

 

[Shrink Proof]

Hello, is that the President? Yeah, hi. Look, about that allies escorting your oil tankers through Hormuz thing. Well, we really appreciate the offer to join in with Operation Epstein Fury, but we're going to stay well away from the front lines, just like you said we did in Iraq and Afghanistan, OK?

Maybe ask Melania to do the escort work - she's much more experienced with that sort of thing. And they say she's free of bone spurs too.

Oh, and good luck at the arraignment.

See you in The Hague,

The Allies.

 

[Ian Key]

Who said:

"The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer - But we will remember. We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won."

Don't ask Trump as he can't remember what happened yesterday never mind a week ago.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Blair listened, Blair acted, Blair looked like a fool . Why would we fall for the US rhetoric , especially one which is based on demented thinking again. The arrogant school bully and his lapdog the US president who have said they have achieved the absolute military advantage ? but not yet political, have every right to back down before facing a war crimes court . Why would any right thinking nation want to get involved in partnership with them.
Protecting innocent commercial shipping and neighbouring states has its merits , but not under the command structure which would be demanded by the dominant aggressor and fair weather ally who want an extension to their own forces.
As 90% of Iranian oil goes to China it does make you think that trump and his cronies are trying to poke them into a reaction , and Iran is just a proxy war as one of the pre-cursors to the big event?

 

[Gomev]

So now he wants NATO's assistance !

 

[T1 Terry]

Who said:

"The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer - But we will remember. We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won."

Don't ask Trump as he can't remember what happened yesterday never mind a week ago.

It seems these days, he can't remember what he was saying, while he's saying it
Now he is looking for someone to blame for the war ever being started in the first place. No one seemed to remember they had just retired all the mine sweepers and the new replacement system hadn't even been tried in earnest, more just a sales promotion demo by the manufacturers.
Not that it really makes much difference, they can't operate while still under fire and Iran can lay the mines at different depths, faster than the new tech systems would be able to destroy them .......

Now it seems, Cash Patel, the Trump approved head of the FBI, fired all the agents that were investigating the Iranian links with Epstein and no one was actually updating any of Iranian intel for fear of also being sacked ....

If you know you are an idiot, you should surround yourself with experts, not more idiots, it appear, as he gets closer to his 80th birthday, he still doesn't realise he is an idiot .....

I blame the TV network that built him up to be something other than a failure for the Apprentice series, he actually believed the hyped up BS

T1 Terry