[ExI] My prediction

[Darin Sunley]

Sigh. I'm old enough to remember when "Team America World Police is Bad"
was a mainstream left-wing position, not "literal Orange fascism."

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 2:38 PM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:

> NATO is dead. It's been Weekend-at-Bernie's-ed since 1989, mostly because
> it (and the entire post WWII international order) has made a certain class
> of people very very rich, and they can buy column-inch ink by the swimming
> pool.
>
> All of the "craziness" is part of a perfectly coherent albeit massively
> ambitious plan to pivot from a "America World Police" international order
> to a multipolar "spheres of influence" order in which the regional
> superpowers manage their own backyards and stay out of everyone else's.
> Which, frankly, is the only possible recipe for lasting world peace.
>
> The sabre rattling with Canada, Denmark, and Venezuela fit into this
> framework perfectly. All of them are about ejecting Chinese influence from
> the Americas. (Canada 's government, it just so happens, is owned lock,
> stock, and barrell by Chinese intelligence, because they can and it wasn't
> even difficult. Canadian politicians are hopeless amateurs at international
> geopolitics. They've already lost a game they didn't even know they were
> playing )
>
> Reasonable people can disagree with this plan, but it is neither stupid
> nor crazy. I for one am absolutely onboard - I'd rather not have another
> century of "We must invade Iran because they aggressively planted
> themselves in the center of our ring of military bases, and pay no
> attention to my defense stock portfolio."
>
> /Please/ don't make me rephrase this like I'm talking to a five-year-old.
> I /know/ you're perfectly capable of having grown-up conversations when the
> subject is about anything other than Orange Man Bad.
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026, 2:19 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 3:57 PM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> *> Ok, short words then.*
>>> *The Trump Admin is made of smart people. You can disagree with them,
>>> but they are not dumb, or crazy. Writing them off as dumb or crazy is dumb
>>> and crazy.*
>>>
>>
>> *Without exception every member of Mr. I Lowered Drug Prices By 1600
>> Percent's administration publicly says that his idea of threatening NATO
>> member Denmark with military force is a good one. There are only 3 possible
>> explanations for that strange phenomenon, at least one of the following
>> must be true: *
>>
>> *1) Every member of the administration is as crazy as the President of
>> the United States . *
>>
>> *2) Every member of the administration is as stupid as the President of
>> the United States. *
>>
>> *3) Every member of the administration is lying about their opinion of
>> the mental state of the current President of the United States because they
>> value personal power more than truth or the Constitution. *
>>
>> *John K Clark*
>>
>
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