Donald has his first ‘Board of Peace’ meeting and says he’ll give it $10 Billion of US Money?
Huh?
His money?
Taxpayer Money only that Congress HAS TO approve?
This guy thinks US tax payer money IS HIS to spend howeverthe fuck he wants to?
America Money to jump start Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’?
President Donald Trump on Thursday said the U.S. will contribute $10 billion to the Board of Peace during a bizarre address at his club of world leaders’ first meeting.
Trump made the announcement toward the end of a long, rambling speech as the board — which critics fear will undermine the United Nations and is largely made up of countries run by oppressive and authoritarian leaders — convened in Washington, D.C.
The president gave no further details on the funding, such as where the money is coming from and the scope of what it can be spent on.
The initial remit of the board, first proposed last September, was to implement Trump’s vision for the reconstruction of Gaza following the Hamas-Israel war.
But Trump later made clear his intention for the board is to tackle other conflicts worldwide.
“The Board of Peace is showing how a better future can be built, starting right here in this room,” Trump said at the Donald J. Trump U.S. Institute of Peace, a building the president recently renamed for himself…..
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First Trump BOP meeting…
President Trump on Thursday gathered representatives from nearly 50 countries in Washington D.C. to mark an inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace.
The meeting laid out the Trump administration’s plan for the next phase of the U.S. peace plan for the Gaza Strip, but the president also touted the potential for the board to tackle other conflicts.
“We will make Gaza very successful and safe and we are also going to maybe take it a step further, where we see hotspots around the world, we could probably do that very easily,” Trump said.
European nations in particular have largely held back from signing up for Trump’s broader vision for the Board of Peace, which was originally endorsed in a United Nations Security Council resolution in October.
That resolution helped solidify a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas after three years of war, also laying out a roadmap for Gaza’s reconstruction and rehabilitation.
But Gaza still poses an immense challenge as the Board of Peace seeks to demonstrate it can deliver on its mandate. The enclave is currently split between control by Hamas and Israel’s military, with overwhelming humanitarian needs and an economy at a near standstill….
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Trump Plays the Peace Game (Russian Memories?)
To anyone who spent time in the old U.S.S.R., President Trump’s newly hatched “Board of Peace,” which holds its first meeting on Thursday at the newly rechristened Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace, evokes worrying echoes.
Nobody loved peace as much as the Soviet people, or at least it seemed that way in the cascade of official proclamations. It was professed on billboards and May Day slogans and in “peace cruises” down the Volga at which starry-eyed foreigners were invited to sing “We Shall Overcome” with brightly dressed schoolchildren or met with peace-loving “ordinary” (read: carefully primed) Soviet citizens to discuss American militarism.
“Mir i druzhba” — “peace and friendship” — was often the first toast in any formal meeting between Soviet officials and foreigners, with the subtext that we, the foreigners, were the warmongers. A colleague of mine dubbed these toastmasters the “peace and friendship hard-liners,” and the underground humor mill suggested that many Soviets agreed. “Mir” also means “world” in Russia, which made for a neat anti-slogan: “We want mir! The whole mir!”
The Kremlin did not have a “Board” or an “Institute” dedicated to peace, like Mr. Trump now does, but it did have a “World Peace Council,” a “Soviet Peace Fund” and a “Soviet Peace Committee,” headquartered in Moscow on Prospekt Mira, the Avenue of Peace. The groups were a major weapon in Soviet foreign policy, organizing regular international peace conferences and providing generous secret funding for many international antiwar movements that were, in fact, glorifying the Soviet Union.
Like any concerted effort to fool people, it worked some of the time. I met Russians who seemed to really believe that America was itching for war. On one news-gathering trip deep into Russia, I was asked so often why “you Americans” want war — either naïvely or provocatively — that I finally snapped at one questioner. We can’t help it, I said; we just love war so much.
It’s not clear whether Mr. Trump is aware of how much the Soviets loved peace, too, though he has offered a seat on his Board of Peace to Vladimir Putin, the successor to the Bolshevik bosses, whose invasion of Ukraine has so far led to almost two million people being killed, wounded or missing.
Mr. Trump’s own idea of peace is also a bit muddled. He misses no opportunity to demand a Nobel Peace Prize for the eight wars he claims to have ended: between Israel and Iran; Israel and Hamas; Pakistan and India; Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo; Thailand and Cambodia; Armenia and Azerbaijan; Egypt and Ethiopia; and Serbia and Kosovo. (Russia-Ukraine is pending.)
To be clear, most of the deals were temporary fixes to old disputes, not all of them really wars…..
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