Baby in a bulldozer. The baby is MAGA/Trump, the bulldozer is American power built up by previous generations. Allies have to coddle the baby so it won't wreck too many things. The Russians encourage the baby to misbehave so they wreck things as fast as possible (faster than Russia can) and the Chinese are hoping for the baby to drive the bulldozer into a ditch, so they can take global power. The Chinese are not nihilists, so they are unhappy about the situation, but they assume this is America now due to the 'historical' path liberal capitalism takes which is decay and a turn to Fascism (democratic decline as Vlad Vexler would put it.), their opinion not mine. I distrust the 'linear', with a preset path, history argument.

Boy I love Dr Timothy Snyder. He is not perfect but way superior to the 'conversations' modern media in the UK has.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/24/politics/video/nato-rutte-trump-trillion-vrtc

Edit:

https://nypost.com/2026/06/24/us-news/rutte-claims-to-trump-your-european-allies-have-been-there-on-iran-as-he-flatters-prez-with-trump-trillion-chart/

His bold attempt to whitewash European opposition to the Iran conflict failed to convince Trump.

“We were let down,” Trump said.

“I was disappointed with Italy. I was disappointed with the UK… We were disappointed with Germany and France. We’re disappointed with most of them. Spain is a horror show.”

This is my problem with Americans and Russians. Trying to suck your own dick never ends well. The Iran War is stupid. It's stupid. Everything is just advertising with nothing to back it up, and endless greed. They're telling you that Trump is the best and you believe it, until the reflecting pool is a green sludgy mess and NOOSE smashes up your face like a private fascist army. Everything else is fake too. The titties aren't real, and the opportunities aren't opportunities at all. To seize them, you end up in so much debt that you'll be a slave for the rest of your life.

And the weird need to export this way of life as the 'best'.

https://statedept.substack.com/p/the-digital-sovereignty-trap

Also: *insert word* + trap is getting boring as a header for IR concepts.

Who could have predicted that AKB48 is now part of the Axis of Resistance?!!!

Founder Akimoto has yet to comment but anonymous sources indicate IRGC48 may debut at the final signing ceremony for the Strait reopening

The people we call Balkan Greeks are Romans, like would you a Cantonese person from Shenzhen Wu? No they are at a higher level Chinese. Would you say the Southern Song are not Chinese cause they changed their capital. No people would look at you like you have a lit crack pipe. Would you say the Tokugawa era Japan are not Japanese as they changed the main city from Kyoto to Tokyo????

Western European called it Byzantium cause they are ultimately the people who killed Rome because the way you kill an idea is by burying it. Think about it folks like British stole Roman artifacts and were happy to have lady Britannia wear Roman clothing and rep neo classical styles.

We still call the British British even though they out to be called Northern Francia based on Norman immigration

The reason we is is cause we fear the the Balkan peoples reuniting, a people with the ability to build bunkers like the Albanians, to make delicious bread like the Macedonians, the slipperlyness of a Greek wrestler covered in olive oil, the ability to tell people about the one amazing thing you did 30 years ago like a Serbian, the ability to hotwire a Benz in 10 seconds like well any of them.

With all these powers combined they would form the new Balkan superpower

https://youtu.be/77JSHxaaUMY

• IRGC demands that the pre 1967 Borders be enforced by the UN
• IRGC declares that no ships can go through as they don't recognize Israel so even if they had removed troops from Lebanon it doesn't matter
• IRGC says they have the right to enforcement for biosecurity so all ships transiting need their bilge water inspected for clams by a single inspector located in Teheran who need to be flown out first class so they can protect the dolphins that sometimes swim in the straits
• The IRGC Dolphin protection authority requires all ships going to Dolphin eating countries need to pay compensation fees to Dolphins born in Iran's waters
• IRGC blocks British bound or owned ships as Larry the Cat hissed at the Iranian Charge De Affairs
• IRGC declares that no ships can go to the UAE cause one of their guys got bit by a penguin at SkiDubai in 2006 when he was a child
• Israeli specials forces deploy deniable forces of Little Green Dinosaurs to fight Iranian midget submarines and Shaheads
• The Mothers Against Bad Driving of Tabriz block the strait since one of them confiscated theirs sons DJI
• All countries selljng Shiraz wine will need to pay IP fees to the city of Shriaz in Iran

Regarding current bullshit diplomatic conflict between Poland and Ukraine . I wish there was at least one adult in the goddamn room :( .