Martyn Richard Jones
President Donald Trump’s recent comments about NATO do not indicate a call for collective security reform. Instead, they reveal an intensely transactional view of international partnerships. Urging alliance members to assign as much as 5% of their GDP, an unprecedented figure, to purchasing U.S.-made weaponry and military equipment, Trump has once again reframed global security as a business deal.
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Afilonius Rex, Buenos Aires, 22nd January 2025.
Famous rock groups sometimes choose to do all acoustic sets, which they call unplugged sessions. In the political world, especially in the USA, we have another phenomenon, the unhinged sessions.
Trump and his entourage of oligarchs, grifters and chancers are an ugly lot of genetically cretinous and unbalanced freaks, aren’t they? I mean, if they were all from the same village, you’d suspect radiation poisoning and incest or some such thing, wouldn’t you?
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Afilonius Rex, Madrid, 18th January 2025.
Profound antagonism has existed between Russia and Western Europe since the times of the Czars. Leading roles in this perpetual drama have been racism, imperialism, arrogance, ignorance, personal ambitions and paranoia. The biggest problem in the room is that Russia understands the West too well and that the West is deliberately stubborn when it comes to putting itself in the shoes of Russia.
There are elements on all sides who are nostalgic about the Cold War and believe that it should be the natural state of things, not just some terrible and painful relic of how not to live in peace, harmony and cooperation.
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