"The problem isn’t that Trump doesn’t understand that he’s laying the groundwork for Ukraine to lose. He doesn’t care if Ukraine loses.
The problem isn’t that Trump doesn’t understand he’s giving a massive victory to Putin. He's on Putin’s side."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/a-valentine-for-vladimir?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
The problem isn’t that Trump doesn’t understand he’s giving a massive victory to Putin. He's on Putin’s side."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/a-valentine-for-vladimir?r=1emko&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Ex President Trump & his minions will never be welcomed within the region.
America is no longer part of the solution -we're part of the problem...
it gets realer every second of every day.
The problem isn’t that Trump doesn’t understand what he’s doing. It’s that he knows what he’s doing."
it will be like the appeasement of Hitler
in 1938
only this time with nuclear weapons.
I really hope other countries push back so hard that the oligarchs suffer international shame and their finances slide.
Putin and Trump grin and shake hands,
As if they rule all distant lands.
Ukraine’s not there, Europe’s ignored,
Just two old men who think they’re lords.
He doesn't need to be coerced. He is on Putin's side. He likes Putin a lot better than he likes Americans. He wants to impress Putin. That's it.
but pretty sure the gaza situation is putting paid to that.
"... Crypto and the Global Fentanyl Trade" https://www.elliptic.co/resources/elliptic-report-crypto-and-the-global-fentanyl-trade https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/12/washington-to-release-russian-crypto-kingpin-alexander-vinnik-in-exchange-for-marc-fogel-us-official-says-a87975
2022: "Putin visiting Iran to show the world "he still has some friends," ..." https://youtu.be/u-OcVoDncZY?si=cNEIFIufdfPPF66S https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3111724/donald-trump-ridiculed-giving-thanksgiving-presser
If Blinken did this the MAGA shit NY Times would have hammered Biden for days on its front page. https://newrepublic.com/post/191442/russia-america-rubio-prisoner-release
"His first target was independent television. On day four of his inauguration as president in May 2000, Putin sent armed operatives from the tax police and the prosecutor general service to raid the offices of Media Most, ..." https://thedispatch.com/article/kara-murza-alexi-navalny/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/01/22/donald-trump-pursued-business-deal-russia-hid-voters-editorials-debates/2642773002/
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hr-mcmaster-struggled-understand-putins-hold-trump-rcna168176
Now, what is the compelling, simple (like a bumper sticker), alternate message that will resonate with more than 1/2 of the country and start moving us to sanity?
Czechoslovakia did not participate in the Munich Agreement; they were not invited to the negotiations and were essentially forced to accept the terms which ceded the Sudetenland region to Germany, despite not being present at the Munich conference.