Talk about the dumbest form of diplomacy in world history… American embassies are reaching out to local governments and asking them to kiss Trump’s ass.

This, of course, immediatey makes the American government most unwelcome in any host country. Sweden puts it plainly, as the Nordics are known to do.

Stockholm will never agree to it.

“It’s contrary to everything we stand for,” said Valeskog, the Sweden Herald reported. “They should withdraw these [anti-democratic] peculiarities,”

He warned that the American embassy has now risked future trouble with Stockholm.

“If the U.S.A. terminates its acquaintance with the City Planning Office, the embassy will have a hard time getting building permits if they, for example, want to rebuild. It’s their headache, not ours,” said Valeskog.

That’s the tip of the iceberg, in other words. Lack of new permits could shift to removal of permits and then lead to demands to vacate the space.

As explained earlier, Trump is in the habit of destroying things just so he can feel powerful, with no positive outcome in mind. It’s like a toddler crashing through blocks others have spent decades carefully building. Why? He go boom! So here too, in the most basic diplomacy gaffe, he is destroying all the goodwill America had around the world, replacing it with disgust. This will slide American intelligence towards being deaf and blind, as all the ears and eyes are self-defeated by a fog of hubris.

It will lead to the same end as Trump steaks, Trump vodka, Trump airline, Trump casino, Trump univeristy… all examples of what to expect next in the dustbin of history: Trump embassies.

Indian officials are staying quiet about Pakistan claims to have destroyed at least five jets in a huge battle involving 125.

The “dog fight” between Pakistani and Indian fighter jets, which Pakistani officials say downed five Indian planes, was one of the “largest and longest in recent aviation history,” a senior Pakistani security source told CNN. The Pakistani claim has not been corroborated and could not be immediately verified by Newsweek.

A total of 125 fighter jets engaged in an hour-long aerial battle, with both sides confined to their own airspace as long-range missiles were exchanged at distances surpassing 100 miles, CNN said.

Notably, the real-world combat performance of the Chinese-made jets and long-range air-to-air missiles deployed by Pakistan are being intensely studied.

Pakistan’s major fighter jets are related to China, including the Chinese-made J-10CE and the JF-17, which was developed jointly by the two countries. According to Chinese media, Pakistan has ordered 36 J-10CE jets, of which the first 20 have been in service.

Pakistan’s foreign minister said that the J-10CE jets were employed to shoot down Indian fighter aircraft, and the Chinese ambassador was informed about the military action.

France has independently confirmed that they supplied one of the lost Indian jets.

If a PL-15-armed J-10C did indeed neutralize a Rafale in combat, the implications are considerable. It would suggest not only a shift in tactical air superiority but a broader realignment of regional power dynamics. While India fields a diverse and numerically superior air force—including Su-30MKIs, MiG-29s, Mirage 2000s, and indigenous Tejas fighters—Pakistan’s focused investments in electronic warfare and missile reach may have introduced an asymmetric capability that challenges India’s technological edge.

Such a scenario also signals the transformation of air warfare into a domain where electronic warfare, radar range, and missile kinematics matter more than traditional dogfighting ability. In that context, the Rafale’s superiority in maneuverability and close-combat survivability may not be sufficient in a scenario where the first shot, fired from beyond 100 kilometers, determines the outcome.

The implications are indeed severe, that the Chinese could easily mop up both Russian and Indian airspace.

Update: US officials claim they can confirm two French-made Indian jets were shot down by the Chinese-made Pakistani air-to-air missiles.

Update: India also seems to have lost at least one MiG-29 along with at least two confirmed Rafale. Technical analysts are predictably saying it’s not the planes, it’s the players.

And while the loss of a Rafale, especially to a Chinese-designed fighter, if confirmed, would be a huge propaganda win for Pakistan and, to some degree, China, the reality is that modern air combat is far more than a simple fighter-versus-fighter affair. In the long run, other aspects, including training, munitions, networking, airborne early warning, electronic warfare, tactics, and much more, will play into successes and failures.

You can’t miss the point of a man who fixates on harm as his only sense of power. He thrives on causing pain, creating things for the thrill of being the one who can take them away.

“The only Country that doesn’t celebrate is the United States of America…” [he said to explain why he created the holiday.] While he was the one who created the holiday, Trump said “we will not be closing the Country” for them, because “we already have too many Holidays in America”.

Here’s a present you have to appreciate, but you can’t open it and have to give it back. Here’s a new holiday you should celebrate that you can’t celebrate. Mindless chainsaw thuggery.

Who would do such a thing? Why would anyone do such a thing? Take something beautiful and destroy it for no good reason.

He’s so weak and insecure, the very thought of giving makes him scared. So he contrives situations to deny someone, anyone, even babies, something.

Do you feel his worthless power yet?