So at the start of the year, we were watching Russia trying to screw Ukraine, Israel's genocide against Palestinians and waiting for the next US president to mess up the world.
The POTUS didn't disappoint, throwing USAID in to the State Department by February - "Aid From The US People" will now be entirely for the US people, and I'm not saying they won't need it - the childlike economics of Trump's big brain activities suggest that in a few years, things may be even worse for the people inhabiting that continent.
Then there was the situation in Ukraine with JD Vance proving that he has the brain of an idiot, and DT repeatedly attempting to get in to Putin's pants by preventing Ukraine's representatives from attending discussions about their future. Subsequent blackmailing of a nation followed in May, along with a $90Billion deal that Vance suggests Europe should pay.
Presumably because 11 years ago Ukraine suggested it wanted to join Europe.
So as well as attempting to "persuade" Canada and Greenland to become new states of the United States of America, yer man was also of the opinion that he could make a better go of Palestine than Palestinians. To do this would involve moving all the Palestinians out of their homes, or whatever was left of them.
Admittedly, Israeli youths are unlikely to fire on US facilities in the same way that Russia will, but doesn't the shipping of millions of people to desert prison camps (pretty certain that Egypt won't accept the entire population of Palestine) sound a little like something done to Jewish people some time ago?
Speaking of Egypt - the general perception of Israel there is pretty bad among Moslems, or was twenty years ago. Somehow I can't imagine Israel or the IDF's behaviour has improved that perspective.
Wasn't going to write about this as I don't live in the US and following this shit show of a policy is like trying to understand what my deaf dog is trying to communicate when she barks at me (constantly).
For the sake of a historical record - the US government has given Immigration and Customs Enforcement an unreachable target of arrests, leading to Canadians, Americans and pretty much anyone attempting to immigrate to the US being arrested and deported.
For US readers, it may be worth reading this Library of Congress paper on ICE arrests in the interior which has this section:
While Section 1226 provides that an immigration-related arrest generally requires an administrative warrant, Section 1357(a)(2) lists two circumstances when an administrative warrant is not required for an immigration officer to arrest an alien for a suspected immigration violation:
The second point above is so close to the UK SUS (Stop Under Suspicion) laws that I can only hope that the inevitable riots that these laws cause lead to a massive change in the political situation in the USA.
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