Trump defies attempts to make his actions cohere with any particular strategy. His wars, killing of innocents, and indeed, the threatening of entire civilisations are reshaping the world, but without him even having orchestrated some master plan. He is animated by little more than momentary impulses and resentments.
Not really necessary to read more of Nesrine here. It’s not informative, analytical, it’s performative, political porn for The Elect.
That dreadful man, why isn’t he forced to use the servants’ entrance?
Oh well, guess it sells newspapers.
The priviged gonna make de most of de privileges, unmolested…
That’s my boy !
( All very remiscent of the supercilious sneering at Reagan in 1980 )
The last name tells you whose flag she’s flying. To opine otherwise could expose her to charges of treason and apostasy.
Or worst of all, coconuthood.
“…the bodies pulled from the rubble in Gaza, a school full of young pupils blown apart in Iran. The more than 1 million people in southern Lebanon expelled en masse from their homes.“.
Any comment on the slaying of eight children in Louisiana, Nesrine? Why not? They were, after all, the right colour. As it seems it’s only colour thar links the cases above..
The bodies pulled from the rubble in southern Isreal, the million Jews expelled from various middle-eastern countries…..
If you are going to comment isn’t it time you could spelI Israel?
” a school full of young pupils blown apart in Iran. “
The actual pupils:

I misread that as monetary impulses and resentments, which funnily enough brought Nesrine and her ‘community’ to mind.
“Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like”, says member of goat-raping, clit-snipping tribe of devil-worshippers.
Trump defies attempts to make his actions cohere with any particular strategy.
Keeps them guessing I suppose.
Trump’s is a well worn strategy – offer to negotiate and if they don’t negotiate in good faith (as he sees it), hit ‘em and then offer to negotiate again. Rinse and repeat until you get the desired result.
Just keep bombing their Ayatollahs until they find one who wants to live
But therein lies the problem. They all want glorious martyrdom.
Their terms are acceptable.
I very much doubt all Iranians….
And ultimately.. since we’re giving them *exactly* what they want in that Martyrdom.. Why are they complaining so much?
It’s merely an observation of mine over the years, but I can’t help notice that the ones calling most vehemently for that Martyrdom almost invariably do so safely far removed from all the things potentially causing that Martyrdom..
It’s almost as if they actually have ulterior motives, and actually want *others* to do the Being Martyrs bit, while they proceed to Lead the Glorious War Against The infidels.
Suitably compensated with plenty of Virgins in *this* life for all their Holy Efforts, of course…
Then again… Could be just me being overly cynical and stuff… Ebil Me…
Suicide bombing is extremely effective, but most people want to go in old age from the strain of Eiza Gonzalez bouncing on them rather than in a flaming fireball.
We’re into incentives here.
You find young men, who can’t get laid, and are stupid enough to buy the afterlife. You also pay their families very well for it. So the useless retarded son gets the rest of the family a house and becomes most beloved son (Israel bulldozes houses paid for from suicide bomber money to try and fix this).
Kamikaze pilots were not signing up for it. It was get in the plane or get shot. Then they were sealed in. If they came back unscratched, off you go again. You got out of the programme by dying or somehow surviving the crash and getting out.
Ritual suicide of seppuku was not about people’s love of the Emperor. It was about their sons. Officers could keep the family honour by doing it. Their sons would be able to follow as officers. If they didn’t, they risked their sons being knocked down to the enlisted classes.
Everyone thinks Johnny Foreigner acts mad, but actually, not that crazy.
Matthew Parris has much the same piece in The Times.
Matthew fucking Parris, eh? I thought he was interesting, once.
Once? About 30 years ago? And then there’s his Brexit Derangement Syndrome…
He was a backbench MP in one of the safest seats for a grand total of 8 years at the height of Conservative popularity. You could have stuck a blue rosette on a Cyberman in West Derbyshire in 1979 and it would have been elected.
Off the back of that he’s had a career for decades as everyone’s Tame Conservative. The bloke that will wear a blue rosette while giving a thorough rimjob to statism. All designed to make people think that robust Conservatives are fringe lunatics.
Same with Ruth Davidson, who, only got to be elected because she scraped in on a regional list, and achieved nothing in office, but you’d think she was Thanos the way some people talk about her.
Unsurprisingly…
All the establishment media will have the same thing. Orange Man Bad. For the media class, Trump is enemy number one. And with good reason.
In the years before Trump, they were the gatekeepers. Their puff-pieces on politicians who schmoozed them, who tickled their prejudices, who made them feel important could make the difference between defeat and election. Their evisceration of, or even worse, their complete failure to mention a name could make the difference between election and defeat.
So all politicians became roughly the same, the establishment media tail wagging the political dog. And then there was Trump. Who said things like “America is a great country” when the media class were way too sophisticated to utter such a self-evident truth. He got ridiculed, brushed aside. But did he pass silently into the night like he should? No, he bypassed them communicating directly with voters via Twitter. Ignoring them, the guardians of the purity of public thought.
Never again should this be allowed to happen. Whichever side Trump is on, they have to be on the other side. Especially Iran. Iran executes journalists. Which is good (provided it isn’t them, the establishment journalists on the receiving end, obvs) because it proves that journalists are important enough to warrant the attention.
Beating Trump is the thing that matters, second only to beating the idea of Trump. The idea that a politician can cut the media class out of their communications with the public.
What we are witnessing is the collective wrestling of a genie back into the bottle. Will it succeed? Depends…