So a protection racket, in other words.
Setup by the dollar store godfather wannabe
Ever since trump got elected, the news has been either bizarre, devastating, hilarious, insane, removed, cringe, maddening…
Can that heart attack come already? Come on, McDonald’s hamburgers, do your job
Make news boring again
Heart Attack would be nice, but the men next in line are worse.
Yeah. A crushing defeat in midterms is a better outcome. Also, if some republican senators and congrespeople figured that they can save their asses by opposing Trump, those from tariff ravaged states, for example, he could even be impeached.
I don’t think you’ll have midterms. Trump’s just one year into his presidency and already has his SS(private military) deporting people with citizenship. There’s no consequences to his actions, so why follow laws?
Absolutely fucking terrible protection racket if that’s what it is.
The US spends 7tn per year on government spending. Even if the entire UN ponied up a billion each, every year, that would be less than 200bn in additional revenue. Not nothing, but barely a fraction of the 5tn in tax revenue the US government takes in every year.
That’s like the mafia hitting you up for $50 a month.
Lol as if this money will go to us. Trump will pocket it for himself just like he’s doing with Venezuela.
Actually, at least according to this article, the charter does state that any funds will be personally controlled by Trump (or whoever he designates as his successor).
The document describes a mechanism resembling the “purchase” of influence: standard membership in the Board of Peace is limited to three years and depends on the will of the chairman. This restriction is lifted for states that contribute more than US$1 billion in cash to the fund within the first year.
“Decisions would be taken by a majority, with each member state present getting one vote, but all would be subject to the chairman’s approval,” Bloomberg says.
Pay a billion to get a vote, and everyone gets a vote…
But trump can overrule any vote…
And he can kick anyone out that he wants, so if you ever go against his opinion of the moment, he’ll kick you out.
Why the fuck would any country pay this?
Why the fuck would any country pay this?
Same reason they would gift Trump an airplane?
Because they couldn’t find a buyer?
I first read this as
Because they couldn’t find a burger?
And I like that both sentences are plausible
He’s going to play this whole game of doing military actions and stuff. Then people complain and he’ll just say the decision was made in his board of peace. If you wanted something different, you had to be there and vote.
I mean, to be real it’ll be an invasion club.
Join and pay up, and everyone votes that your invasion is for long-term stability and peace.
Don’t join up, and get labeled an aggressor for defending your own soverignity.
If Russia, China, NK join up, it stops being a joking matter
Because it would be a shame if the military had to pay a little visit to your country if you don’t.
Also, guess what? Tariffs!
… oh my god this isn’t an onion article.
We are in hell.
We are in hell.
Always was, just this time Trumpler is exacerbating the overall situation - essentially driving us deeper into the underworld.
On Friday, the White House presented the composition of “a founding Executive Board”, consisting exclusively of figures loyal to Trump: his Middle East adviser Steve Witkoff, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and former UK prime minister Tony Blair.
It’s astonishing how often Tony Blair manages to find new ways to be a massive fucking disappointment. It’s like he’s already concluded that he’s going to hell for the whole Iraq thing so he’d may as well lean into it by being a huge cunt while he’s alive.
I thought the same thing. I mean the whole Iraq thing could be seen as a misjudgement in hindsight. Now though he just looks evil.
He’s fucking delusional.
The next 90 days will decide if the EU is a puppet state of the US.
By the soldier count on Greenland right now, it’s lookin kinda sus. They couldn’t defend a movie theater rn.
Lol, tell me you don’t understand posturing without telling me you don’t understand posturing
Either Trump is bluffing, you guys are, or both.
Look up trip wire troops and you’ll understand.
Any nation that joins this farcical board makes itself a vassal to the US. I kinda expect random small nations with low stakes in the UN to go for it, to suck up to tRump and try to curry favor. For them, becoming a vassal will be moving up in the world. But any self-respecting European nation needs to double down on its commitments to Europe.
Who becomes chairman when trump leaves office? The next US president, a senior member of the board, or is it a position for life? Or is he so convinced that he’ll never leave office that he didn’t bother describing that in the charter?
He’s trying to make himself
chancellorking of the world.Also Europe having a few dozen soldiers on Greenland is more of a deterrent. It says “you attack here, you’re attacking all of us,” and it also acts as an assurance to Denmark that the other nations will respond if something happens. Since Article 5 wouldn’t apply if attacked by another NATO country…
TL;DR: Trump decides to let countries pay him a billion dollars to join his own UN ripoff
Kinda like TrumpU? If anything, he’s consistent in him MO.
A “Board of Peace” membership and a 100 Euro bill are worth 100 Euros combined.
Trump is a genius inventor: he keeps coming up with new ways to take bribes
It costs money to join the axis? This will break the future Hearts of Iron IX mechanics.
Nah, they will add DLC to play as axis, but it’s subscription only.
Every pro Trumper I know also has a deep fear of the UN or some shadowy organisation controlling the world. Every conversation ended up with “Well at least he will take back power from the elites”. Now Trump declares he wants to rule the world, and outlines their exact fears as his plan and they are silent. No comment. Why are people so stupid? And pathetically so. It not even hard to see how ridiculous this guy is, but people are still bowing down to it.
Literally just tribalism. Trump is on “their team”, therefore whatever he says is good.
I still remember when people were fearmongering about Obama enacting martial law.
Always projection. As long as it’s their guy doing it, yay team.
It’s WWE politics.
Rimmer: United America? Who’s that?
Kryten: Well, at the end of the 23rd century, America attempted to bring peace to the world by asking every nation on Earth to sign a peace treaty.
Any nation that refused, they invaded.
Now, a war ensued that was called the War Against War. Those countries who went to war because they were so against war, they were prepared to go to war to fight in a war against war, called themselves United America.
(Sorry can’t find a better source)
I was not prepared for how Craig Charles looked in that clip.
But then I gave up on the show ages ago. The Series 6 finale was the end as far as I’m concerned.
Outside of the overt extortion for entry bit, how would this be any different than the current UN where the US unilaterally controls basically every decision or its consequences?
It’s called the board of peace so we can assume it will be a global Mafia demanding protection money, and going to war whenever it’s the more profitable outcome.
The kind of group that should be nuked from orbit.
So no different than the status quo where Team America World Police does whatever they want whenever.
But this one exists to launder money to him and his cronies
UN SC is not unilaterally controlled by the US, other permanent members get a veto too. That’s why he would like to replace that.
It’s his same old song. Tear down what already exists, then huck a new version of it out for the very low price of $19.84.
I’m surprised he hasn’t added his name to the title of it yet.
That’s a good point. He still has time to put his name on it though.
The stupid thing about this is the US already has a disproportionate amount of influence in the UN. Greed is something that can’t ever be satisfied.
Should take this chance to say you can’t be part of both and kick us out of the un
Well, after he got a Nobel Peace Prize, it makes sense that he moves onwards towards his next great wish: King Of The World.
Can we start a go fund me to remove him from office since no one else with the power has the balls to do so?
Hire like a mercenary army to overthrow him?
This is pretty much how US politics already works. Trust me, all of us combined don’t have enough money.
Or maybe we can start an alternative government of the United States as a micronation with a distinct name, flag, seal and such.
Just buy out the senate
You know, most of the Supreme Court justices do have a prixr. Let’s find it.
