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Anonymous ID: b43b6a Dec. 19, 2023, 8:51 a.m. No.20099660   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9938 >>0237 >>0251 >>0365 >>0404 >>0469

18 Dec, 2023

Trump could leave NATO –Reuters (PANIC Fear Porn)

Loyal appointees would enable the Republican to rule more effectively than the first time

 

Donald Trump’s potential second term in the White House might see Washington stop funding Ukraine, withdraw from NATO, and further cut economic ties with China, Reuters reported on Monday, citing anonymous sources.

 

During his 2017-2021 presidency, many of Trump’s policies ended up obstructed by unelected government officials and sometimes even his own appointees, according to numerous insider accounts. He seeks to get around that problem by appointing “loyalists”more amenable to his “isolationist policies and whims,” the outlet claimed.

 

Reuters admitted that Trump himself has offered “few clues” about his intentions. The article was based on interviews with almost 20 current and former aides and diplomats, most of whom were not named.

 

According toeight European diplomats, there are “acute fears” that the second Trump administrationwould cut off aid to Ukraine and doubts whether it would honor the US commitment to “defend NATO allies.”

 

“There are rumors that he wants to take the US away from NATO or withdraw from Europe, of course it sounds worrying but…we are not in a panic,” said a diplomat from one Baltic country. (Sounds like panic to me)

 

Another diplomat, representing a northern European NATO member state, outlined the options his and some other embassies have sent to their capitals about the November 2024 election.If the incumbent president, Democrat Joe Biden, is reelected, “Things might go rather well: the US keeps on rehabilitating herself,” he said. (WTF, destroying America is ok with this Facist, getting more endless wars and woke is their goal)

 

A “mild” version of the second Trump presidency would be “a repetition of his first term with some aggressive overtones.” If he actually follows through on pledges todismantle the ‘Deep State’ apparatus, that would be the “doomsday option,” according to the diplomat.

 

Trump is currently the favorite for the Republican presidential nomination. If he defeats Biden, he “would likely install loyalists in key positions in the Pentagon, State Department and CIA whose primary allegiance would be to him,” the anonymous aides told Reuters. That would enable him to “advance his foreign policy priorities faster and more efficiently than he was able to when previously in office.”

 

Making political appointments is the constitutional prerogative of US presidents. However, Trump has hinted he might purge the lower ranks of the federal bureaucracy, on many occasions describing the “Washington swamp” as an impediment to genuine reforms.

 

“President Trump came to realize that personnel is policy,” Robert O’Brien, Trump’s fourth national security advisor, told Reuters. “At the outset of his administration, there were a lot of people that were interested in implementing their own policies, not the president’s policies.”

 

Four people who “converse” with the 45th president have said that he regularly gets advice from former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, Ambassador Richard Grenell, and his one-time deputy, Kash Patel. None of them responded to Reuters’ interview requests. Neither Trump nor his campaign commented on the story.

 

(This “diplomats” should worry about their own countries, the EU is falling fast to third world nation status.)

 

https://www.rt.com/news/589281-trump-foreign-policy-loyalists/

Anonymous ID: b43b6a Dec. 19, 2023, 8:58 a.m. No.20099684   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9938 >>9947 >>9951 >>9977 >>0122 >>0235 >>0251 >>0365 >>0404 >>0469

19 Dec, 2023 09:

Ex-Pakistani PM uses AI to deliver speech from prison

Imran Khan wrote a script that was turned into a four-minute speech with the help of a ‘voice clone’

 

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is currently imprisoned, has used artificial intelligence to deliver a speech to his supporters. The four-minute address was broadcast ==during a ‘virtual rally’ attended by more than 4.5 million people•• across Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and YouTube.

 

Pakistani authorities have clamped down on gatherings organized by Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party since he was briefly arrested for the first time in May. The former prime minister was sentenced to three years behind bars in August for illegally selling state gifts. The 71-year-old faces a slew of other charges, all of which he claims are politically motivated.

 

According to PTI representatives, the cricket-star-turned-politician wrote a script for the speech and passed it on to his supporters through lawyers. It was then dubbed with the help of a tool developed by the AI firm ElevenLabs, which can create a ‘voice clone’ of a person based on speech samples.

 

In his message, Khan accused the Pakistani government of kidnapping and harassing activists from his party.

 

He also stressed that his “determination for real freedom is very strong,” thanking the PTI social media team for “this historic attempt” to circumvent government restrictions.

 

Meanwhile, the NetBlocks watchdog reported that it had detected disruptions in social media availability in Pakistan, starting late on Sunday. The group alleged that this may have been due to deliberate “internet censorship.”

 

Khan was charged by a special court in October with breaching state secrecy laws over an alleged conspiracy to reveal what he characterized asproof of US interference in orchestrating his removal from power last year.

 

The diplomatic cable at the center of the case was sent by then-Pakistani Ambassador to the US Asad Majeed Khan after his meeting with two senior US State Department officials in March 2022. According to multiple media reports purportedly based on the document, Washington made clear that it was unhappy about Khan’s failure to toe the West’s line. The US officials allegedly hinted to the Pakistani diplomat that if the prime minister lost an impending no-confidence vote in parliament, “all will be forgiven in Washington.”

 

Khan was ousted about a month after the meeting, and has since mounted a major protest campaign.

 

While the US has denied exerting any pressure on Pakistan, the International Monetary Fund unexpectedly extended a $3 billion bailout for Islamabad in July – a decision that The Intercept has claimed was influenced by Washington.

 

(Khan was eliminated because he wanted to maintain relations with Russia, he only would send Humanitarian aid to Ukraine and Trump liked him and he liked Trump.

They US and West has ousted patriots leaders numerous times in foreign countries if they don’t tow the line.)

 

https://www.rt.com/news/589307-pakistan-imran-khan-ai-speech/

Anonymous ID: b43b6a Dec. 19, 2023, 9:31 a.m. No.20099834   🗄️.is 🔗kun

18 Dec, 2023

Backers pressing Ukraine for ‘frozen’ conflict – FT

Kiev’s Western benefactors have reportedly turned from optimism to seeking a “new theory of victory” over Russia

 

Discouraged by Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive and no longer seeing a “convincing theory of victory” over Russia, Kiev’s Western allies have reportedly shifted to ==looking for a way to claim success by freezing the conflict in place along the current lines••.

 

Even some of Ukraine’s most ardent backers are discussing the need to persuade President VladimirZelensky’s government to “accept a frozen conflict and declare victory”over Russian President Vladimir Putin, Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman reported on Monday, citing a former US official.“We have to flip the narrative and say that Putin has failed,” the unidentified official said.

 

The idea behind such a strategy would be to seek a “de facto freezing” of the conflict, which would involve moving Ukrainian forces into a defensive posture to hold off further Russian gains, Rachman wrote. The intensity of the fighting would dwindle under such a scenario, he said, leading to an armistice like the one that ceased combat operations in the Korean War in 1953. None of the “underlying political issues” would be settled.

 

“Once the fighting in Korea stopped, the South Koreans were able to concentrate on rebuilding their economy, with enormous success,” Rachman added. “Crucially, Ukraine still has access to the Black Sea and controls the port of Odessa. It has also been given the green light to begin negotiations to join the EU, which should be combined with more financial and technical aid to begin the process of rebuilding the economy.”

 

Such a prospect marks a far cry from the optimism conveyed by Western leaders earlier in the Ukraine crisis, such as when US President Joe Biden vowed in February that there was “no possibility” that Russia would defeat Ukraine. In July, Biden claimed that Putin had “already lost the war.”

 

However, as the FT columnist noted, Biden’s rhetoric has shifted in recent days. After pledging repeatedly since the conflict began in February 2022 that the US would give Ukraine all the weapons and funding it needs for “as long as it takes” to win, he revised that promise last week to “as long as we can.”

 

With the continuation of aid from Western benefactors increasingly in doubt, Ukraine “could be in serious trouble” by next summer, Rachman wrote. Even if new aid packages are approved by lawmakers, keeping the conflict in a “stalemate,” time could be on Russia’s side, he added.

 

“After the failure of the counteroffensive, there is also genuine skepticism about Ukraine’s prospects,”Rachman said. “If the country and its backers are to win the argument to do whatever it takes, they will have to do a better job of defining what ‘it’ is. Without a credible theory of victory, the pressure on Ukraine to negotiate with Russia will mount.”

 

(The cowards lost and refuse to take the blame for their stupid idea. The karma is coming back and any bullshit strategy they plan will fail.)

 

https://www.rt.com/news/589283-ukraine-allies-seek-to-freeze-current-lines/