Trump is often called "transactional". But a transaction is usually an exchange freely entered into by willing parties. His intended looting of Ukraine's resources isn't a transaction, it's a mafia shakedown.
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Aaron Rupar
Trump on Ukraine: "I want them to give us something for all of the money that we put up and I'm gonna try and get the war settled and I'm try and get all that death ended. We're asking for rare earth and oil, anything we can get. But we feel so stupid. It affects Europe. It doesn't really affect us"
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And that is entirely because trump has kissed putin’s ring.
It’s all here folks in Sarah Kendzior’s excoriating polemic.
Shame it wasn’t required reading in high school.
Maybe one day?
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Read it before it’s taken down…
Consider use & implications of fav term " leverage"