[in a private message to Trump, french president Macron explains they’re aligned on Syria and Iran, but he draws the line at Greenland]
[below, a rendition of the classic meme in which Peter Griffin is being checked for skin color by a cop, the light skin tones show “Don’t touch or else”, the dark ones “Let’s colonize together :)”]
Trump is a cunt for publicly airing messages sent to him in confidence. Everyone knows about his ego and what he thinks of brown people. Attempting to placate him in private to stop the first act of World War 3 is a reasonable action, and I refuse to dogpile on any world leader for trying their best to deal with that toddler.
Unless you thinks its ok to sacrifice Syrians and Iranians to placate Trump, I feel like you missed the point of the message
That will happen either way, but if that’s what it takes to stop Trump getting what he wants AND stop the rest of the world becoming the new Syria / Iraq then yes, the manchild needs to be placated with whatever words might work.
Dogpiling with neocolonialists is a good thing. What “great things” do you think he wants to do in Iran?
Get rid of their repressive theocracy
And replace it with a repressive secular vassal state. That sounds so much better I wonder why nobody tried that before.
The key insight is that they’re all terrible