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Incompetent war and time to part

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Even if we know that US President Donald Trump and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took us on an illegal and unpopular war against Iran, the incompetence that shines is so great that the US president does not even know how to stop the war.

A war that was supposed to decapitate the Iranian government causing its instant end never happened. The war would not end in day, weeks and possibly in months.

Trump’s erratic behavioir has an impact on military morale.

And think of it. Here we are helping to feed a man’s ego while he takes down the whole world with him. More concerning are the different politicians who allow this type of reckless behavior to persist. In Finland, one of these politicians is Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, a rubber stamp.

One of the messengers of Trump’s new world order is Secretary of State Marco Rubio. By shaking Rubio’s hand, Valtonen is saying with a smile on her face that countries like Cuba and regions like Latin America fall under the US. And then she cries about Russian aggression. The hypocrisy is overwhelming. Read full story here.

President Trump’s behavior and decisions are deeply concerning. Is he mentally fit? Do you believe that if he goes far enough, like give the green light to nuclear wepons, he may be overthrown in a coup?

Too radical of an idea?

Who would have ever thought that the White House would be inhabited by such a president.

I have a suggestion for Finland: Leave NATO and put on notice our ties with the United States and Israel.

Hubris and ignorance equals defeat

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“We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time – Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today. “I know nothing about a desalination plant. They’re complaining about a desalination plant. We complain about the fact that they shouldn’t be chopping babies’ heads off.”

US President Donald Trump

We have witnessed with sadness for the past two weeks destruction and carnage peppered with generous quantities of hubris and ignorance. Much of this destructive behavior has come from the Trump administration.

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The imperialistic attitude of the US and Israel has baly miscalculated Iran. They believed that a quick decapitation strike would put an end to the government in Teheran. Instead of causing an uprising, Ali Hosseini Khamenei’s death did not weaken Iran’s resolve but strengthened it.

The idea that Iran would follow the war call of Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu proves their little preparation and knowledge they have of Iran and its dynamics.

It’s not going the way that the US wanted with the global economy being hit by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of oil passes.

“You may have a different opinion about Iran, but the racism of the West against Persians and Muslims feeds the hubris and ignorance. It explains why coverage of the war is usually biased, hypocritical, even racist.”

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It’s war

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I am still recovering from the devastating news that the US and Israel had started a war against Iran. Even after four days of hostilities, we still don’t know why the US and Israel are at war against Iran. We also learned about the fake negotiations between Iran and Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff whose aim was only aimed at buying time in order to carry out their aggression.

Apart from the bomings we saw the real face of the war monster when bombs killed 175 girls at a school. The death and the monstrous consequences are overshadowed by the hypocrisy and power hungry like Reza Pahlavi, who believes that Iran will return to the murderous and repressive days of his father, the Shah, Mohammad reza Pahlavi, who was deposed in 1979 by the Iranian revolution.

The deadly attack, which has been condemned by the UN, took place at a girl’s primary school in Minab southern Iran.

His reign was karma for many for helping to overthrow in 1953 with the help of the CIA and MI6 by overthrowing the then Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.

See the documentary below If you want to see a good account on the Shah’s rise and downfall from power.

One matter that the documentary raises is if the Shah’s son will rule like his father.

To watch documentary click here.

Apart from being an illegal war, we are getting updates, which appear like warfare porn, from Trump and his henchmen like Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Even if it is difficult to predict the outcome, one matter is for certain: war moves in heavy steps without any consideration for life.

Donald Trump, your country is going to hell!

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Only one conclusion arises after listening to President Donald Trump’s rant in the United States: culture war. This war aims to not only shift political power globally, but also in Europe from the center to the hard right.

Trump said that if we do not close our borders, forget about the climate crisis, and stop buying Russian oil, “our countries are going to hell.”

Apart from European far-right Trump sympathizers like Viktor Orbán of Hungary and Italy’s Georgia Meloni, there are several other cheerleaders in Finland, mainly from the Perussuomalaiset (PS)* party.

Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference, which many see as a turning point in EU-U.S. relations, was one where he downplayed the threat of Russia, claiming that Europe’s greatest security threat was unregulated migration and the exclusion of far-right political groups. In the face of widespread condemnation, PS Minister of Finance Riikka Purra praised Vance’s words as a great speech. “Freedom, freedom of speech, democracy; threats from within, inability to fight illegal immigration,” Purra posted on X.

If Purra’s comment was made in Spring, the latest one praising Trump came from Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio:

Writes Tavio on Facebook: “I don’t know how the mainstream media will report on this, but I listened to Trump’s speech at the UN today, and he made a lot of valid points about how open border policies are leading Europe to hell.
Trump said that so-called asylum seekers are rewarding generosity with crime. European prisons are full of foreigners, who already make up more than half of the prison population in many countries.
According to Trump, the migrant problem should be tackled head-on and those who do not belong in the country should be deported, but decision-makers are doing nothing because of political correctness.
He also highlighted climate action as a failed scam that is impoverishing Europe and enriching China and others. Trump believed that Europeans are chasing unrealistic carbon targets and end up paying more for electricity and gasoline than others.
Trump made these remarks to world leaders at the UN General Assembly, where it is unusual to hear such blunt talk that deviates from the narrative familiar to the mainstream media. What do you think?
Will Europe finally take itself in hand, or will it continue to hush things up and bury its head in the sand?”

One wonders what can be done in light of this onslaught. For one, we should not give in and always place our arguments on the rule of law. Racism, for example, is against the law.

The last dictatorship (1976-83) we had in Argentina seemed invincible. Their downward spiral began when their mistaken invincibility turned against them, causing them to do foolish and terrible things.

The same is happening with Trump.

Antisemitism versus racism

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Here is a very simple question: if President Donald Trump had treated racism in the same way he treated antisemitism, would the United States have made real progress in eradicating this social ill—or at least delivered a serious blow against it?

This contrast is striking. While Trump signed executive orders pledging to combat antisemitism on college campuses, his administration presides over arbitrary ICE crackdowns on visible minorities and emboldened white supremacists. These contradictions raise serious questions about the sincerity and scope of his efforts.

One reason Trump’s stance on antisemitism rings hollow is that he himself has been repeatedly accused of antisemitic rhetoric. These accusations are not typically about open expressions of hatred, but about his recurring use of stereotypes: framing Jews as “disloyal,” obsessed with money, or more devoted to Israel than America.

In May 2025, Trump used the word “Shylock” in a speech—a slur rooted in Shakespeare’s caricature of a Jewish moneylender. Although he later claimed ignorance of its antisemitic meaning, groups such as the Anti-Defamation League warned that such language reinforces centuries-old prejudices.

Trump has also frequently suggested that Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats are “disloyal” or “ungrateful,” invoking the age-old dual-loyalty trope that questions Jews’ commitment to their country. In October 2024, he went even further, declaring that “Christians love Israel more than Jews,” a remark widely criticized by Jewish leaders as divisive and condescending.

But let’s be honest: Trump’s antisemitism is disingenuous and a travesty. If he’d invest so much time in cracking down on all kinds of racism, the US would take the first step towards becoming a more racially just country.

Trump and antisemitism pledges are nothing more than the warravaged landscape of Gaza.

The US’ and Israel’s cowardly and politically motivated attack on Iran

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The United States has bombed Iran dragging the US into a new war in the Middle East. Even if Donald Trump said that the bombing on Iran’s nuclear sites were a “resounding success,” how many wars were won by simply bombing a country? None?

Trump is Benjamin Netanyahu’s humble servant. Both need a new war to help them improve their standings in opinion polls.

If you ask me, what happened will not weaken Iran’s nuclear program but will envigor it.

Like in the rest of the troubled region, wars and strife will cause millions to leave and knock on Europe’s high walls.

A shameful day of our hypocrisy.

What has Finland’s response been to the aggression or is it ok because Israel has the right to defend itself?

Shameful.

The fall of (US)America

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The 5 November US presidential election will be remembered as the alarm that signifies the end of USAmerica and when all of its contradictions caught up with it and destroyed it. Nothing good can come out of a second Trump term except for more global and national chaos.

The US poet Allan Ginsberg (1926-1997) put it in the following words in his book The Fall of America: “In a thousand years, if there is history, America’ll will be remembered as a Nasty little country full of Pricks…”

Only the system is to blame for the downfall of the United States, a history of the unfree. The United States’ predicament has come to fruition thanks to runaway capitalism and the lack of guardrails.

Power blinds, but also destroys.

Whenever a country believes it is invinsible, that is when ita downfall spiral begins.

Right behind the United States is Europe.

Our downfall tells us that we’ll be treated the same way as we treat others from developed countries – with contempt.

The United States gets a taste of its bad karma

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With all the noise going on in the United States due to the Jan. 6 Committee hearings, which have shown how former President Donald Trump attempted to stay in power with the help of a coup, one wonders if all that is happening is bad karma.

No matter how much exceptionalism people in the United States attempt to show Trump as an aberration, he is USAmerica that came home to roost.

The US has bloodied its hands in so many coups around the world since the nineteenth century. It never apologized publicly for them never mind offering any compensation for the social damage and deep scars they caused to society.

On Tuesday, former national security adviser to Trump, John Bolton, surprised some by admitting that he had helped plan attempted coups in foreign countries.

As a Latin American, Bolton’s admission that he helped plan coups in countries like Venezuela unmasks the hypocrisy of the United States. Even if some US politicians praise the importance of democracy, Washington’s track record shows how much disdain it has for promoting democracy outside of its borders.

Another matter that the US has condoned is the spread of torture. Such an outlandish method was used by military dictatorships thanks to the CIA and School of the Americas, blamed for teaching and equipping de facto dictatorships in repression techniques and human rights violations committed by former students of different Latin American armies.

Even if France offered the military regime in Argentina its know-how on torture gained from the Algerian War (1954-62), the US was responsible for training security personnel in torture.

One of many terrible military dictatorships supported by the US was Rafael Leonídas Trujillo y Molina of the Dominican Republic, who ruled the country for thirty-two years (1930-61), was also a torturer.

Writes John Gerassi in “The Great fear in Latin America:” “Trujillo’s SIM (Military Intelligence Service) used slow-shocking electric chairs, or an electrified rod known as “The Cane,” especially effective on genitals, or nail extractors, or whips, or the Pulpo (octopus), a many armed electrical device screwed into the skull. Kilometer Nine [the jail] also featured a water tank with bloodsucking leeches.”

Gerassi continues quoting a Look senior editor who visited the country: “I still shudder about Snowball, a dwarf – now jailed – whose specialty was biting off men’s genitals.”

Strange world we live in, no? The US destroys and impoverishes Latin America by not allowing it to realize its own social, political, and economic potential, and then complains about why so many Latin Americas are desperately attempting to enter the US by any means.

Europe has the same issue highlighted by the cartoon below.

A warning to Finland from Washington

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TOPLINE

One of the big questions to arise from the Capitol storming on Wednesday by hordes of President Donald Trump followers is if the same could happen in Finland and other European capitals.

The dust from the Capitol building’s storming by Trump hordes is still settling on a political landscape that appears threatening.

Whatever your view of why and what happened on January 6 will be remembered as one of the worst days of US history. It also serves as a warning to us in Europe.

The Washington Post published a relevant story about that day of infamy headlined, “The end of American exceptionalism.”

KEY BACKGROUND AND QUESTIONS

  • Four Trump thugs and terrorists died. One of these is a police officer, Brian Sicknick, 42, who was killed in the line of duty by the enraged crowd,
  • The hordes were encouraged to go to the Capitol to stop the electoral college’s voting, which confirmed Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States.
  • The storming of the Capitol building was planned for weeks on social media and different websites. Even so, law enforcement was caught with their pants down,
  • The action of the Capitol police raises a lot of questions. Why did some of them open the gates to the hordes, and why did some of them appear in selfies with these domestic terrorists?
  • Is there complicity on a higher level, and was the assault on US democracy a coup attempt?

THREAT TO DEMOCRACY IN FINLAND

In Finland, we have experienced the rise of a radical right populist party, the Perussuomalaiset (PS)*. The party under its leader Jussi Halla-aho has veered further to the right.

In one of many tweets showing support for Trump, Halla-aho, in a tweet below, claims that the outgoing US president is the best thing to happen to the United States and the Western world.

The love affair between the PS and autocratic rulers who shun democracy is nothing new. Even after the assault on the Capitol building on Wednesday, there is an eerie silence of complicity among the party.

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President Trump flirts with a World War if he doesn’t win reelection in November

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What is the worse matter about the coronavirus pandemic? Social distancing? Or US President Donald Trump?

In my opinion, President Trump and his shoddy leadership and outright lies are far worse than the coronavirus pandemic.

His latest lie was contradicting his country’s own intelligence on the origin of the coronavirus.

Trump’s suggestion that bleaches or beams of light could kill the coronavirus suggests that something isn’t right in his head. Source: Facebook. Thank you, Alberto Coronel, for the heads-up.

Mark my words: Trump is such a sociopath that he will not think twice by waging a new World War if it means that it will get him reelected.

The US president, his family, his political, and billionaire cronies are a much greater threat to the world than the coronavirus.