That they’d rather make no money at all than pay the workers a fair wage says everything that needs to be said about the current US.

Not every tactic - no.

And Russia is introducing some novel tactics of its own, like kidnapping and indoctrinating Ukrainian children.

I have little doubt though that the broad strategy is exactly the same - what they can’t take immediately, they intend to take incrementally.

And in fact, that’s essentially what they’re already announcing to the world. They can’t be unaware of the fact that, to much of the world, stating that they’re patterning the proposed occupation after the West Bank is effectively stating outright that they fully intend for Russia to then incrementally steal everything and to kill anyone who tries to stop them.

I assume that also means that Russia would then send in state-sponsored terrorists in the guise of “settlers” to murder the Ukrainians and incrementally steal their land, and send in the army to slaughter them if they dare to fight back.

He asserts that “our goal is not to occupy Gaza, our goal is to free Gaza.”

That’s not just ridiculously obviously a lie - it’s provably a lie.

Israel has already struck a deal with Egypt to sell natural gas from deposits in Gazan territorial waters. Therefore it must be the case that Israel is already planning on not only occupying but annexing Gaza - they could not claim ownership of those gas deposits otherwise.

Not just the most corrupt president in history, but the most gauche and tasteless as well.

Every single person on the planet just happened to be born in some particular place, and every place has some particular set of people who at some point drew some arbitrary lines and decreed that the area within the lines was a country and gave it a name.

The idea that happening to have been born within the confines of one arbitrary set of lines rather than another is something of which to be proud is blatantly stupid.

It’s amusingly revealing that the Russian interference accusations enrage Trump so much.

Unlike virtually everything else in his career, there’s no evidence of impropriety and nobody’s accusing him of anything - they’re just stating that the evidence shows that Russia attempted to interfere in his favor.

And the problem is simply that his bloated and terribly fragile ego can’t cope with that. He desperately needs to believe that he won because he’s the bestest president ever in the history of ever.

If he wasn’t so destructive and such an existential threat to the US, he’d just be pathetic.