I am deeply ashamed that the U.S. is not among these defenders of Ukraine but deeply grateful to the other nations of the world who have stood up to fill the void we have left.
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George, The US voted against a UN Resolution to ACKNOWLEDGE the anniversary of the start of the war, if they won't even acknowledge that, they sure a shit won't support Ukraine's right to exist.
I agree. THIS is a very dark day in the history of US Democracy. (AND always remember it was Trump-VANCE-MUSK & GOP CONGRESS who forced this cowardly craven dark STAIN upon US.
I join you in feeling ashamed, and deeply embarrassed by the thugs who are currently our “leaders”. None of them seem to have any pride or understanding of what America is supposed to stand for. They want to drag us back to the 15th, 16th & 17th centuries.
That’s part of it, but the land grabbing (“exploration”), systematic killing and chasing people from their homes & property, starving people, exploiting them, etc… I’m thinking Columbus on… and Hitler’s antics began about 1924. My grandfather was ready to leave Germany by 1929.
The long term effect here is no one isngoing to want to bother with treaties with the US anymore. we don't show for our allies, and when we do, we threaten to take our help away without obscene quid pro quo
The United States was making money in World War II for years before it got personal for them. Remember? The only joint the anti-fascist effort after Pearl Harbor was bombed
Truly, the German fascists 100 years ago were modeling themselves on the effectiveness of the English and then American eradication of the native population and managing the slave population in Turtle Island
"Freedom" is American marketing for a country founded and always operating as a bisuness
And the Americans, Inc when they the English, based their tactics here directly on the Romans. Can't make this shit up. It's the only reason we till the soil anywhere in the world, it's fantastic for invading the natives. Grain is shit to eat and hard to produce but chef's kiss for colonizing.
You overlook Lend-Lease, which clearly favored the anti-fascist effort. Britain didn't finish repaying until recently. Arms sales to Germany and Japan stopped long before Pearl Harbor.
The reality is the US has historically given credit lines with long-term repayment terms to allies fighting a war
How can you so glibly and the joyously recount extorting people in need like this! And your line that arms sales to Germany and Japan stopped? The Nazis were using IBM developed machines the entire war.
It's called reading history, I can recount how France paid a bunch of money to Germany too following the Franco-Prussian war, doesn't mean I support nor detest it. Stating the facts.
The IBM machines were sold well before Pearl Harbor and were maintained by a German division.
The reality is that historically the United States has been a fascist warmonger with no friends on the planet whatsoever, and only money making business interests.
I mean, fascism didn't exist when the US was founded, and was unpopular even during its peak pre-21st century. Warmonger, sure, except the part where we didn't nuke every opponenet following WW2 like a warmonger would. the rest of your statement is just anger and has no historical basis.
US, Russia, China. Those are your top arms sellers. You think stopping us is going to stop them? Cmon now, think real. We sell to make sure they can't take allies. Is it ethical? No. Is it how the world has worked for a long time? Yes. Will us not selling change anything? No.
Are you even listening to yourself? If your friend was being attacked you wouldn't help them, you would issue a so-called favorable term alone? You would continue to make money on their agony for decades after you deigned to even show up AFTER being on the wrong side for YEARS?
If a friend was in need I would of course offer them what I could, likely to my own detriment. And when it was over we would work out a deal, a favorable one I would give to a friend after a shared struggle. Lots of forgiveness included, but friends typically want to give something back.
We aren't looking to create a new 1920s Germany. We are looking to Marshall Plan. Which is what is not happening in the current admin. They are being disingenuous. As are you.
To add more than just Britain to this: France, Russia, China, South Korea, South Vietnam, Israel, Ethiopia, Colombia, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq again, Afghanistan, and Israel again (and again and again). Some of these were actually given no repayment terms e.g. Egypt. We love giving out guns.
And it was never repaid for obvious reasons, similar to the situation in Afghanistan. Moral of the story is don't back a failing government that isn't even supported by its people (like them) but do back the governments that have support (Ukraine, Israel, Baltic states).
Israel is a military base for Europe and the Americans in the middle east. It is not a valid state. You can read history, or you can be like me and have actually lived all over the world and grown up under Russian military occupation in deep communist Eastern Poland
Not reparations. Loans. South Vietnam was loaned, or given aid (but all American aid is actually a loan for a sandwich on Tuesday), in hte form of an amazing amount of equipment from the US starting not long after it became clear the USSR was sending supplies to the North.
I'm sorry to see that your brain surgery didn't seem to go nearly as well as had been hoped? The Americans destroyed Vietnam, making lots of money on the work, and then gave it loans for a rebuilding? Fuck your sandwich and your Tuesday. You are now muted LMAO what in actual fuck 🤣🤣🤣
Agreed, but sadly not surprised considering the Orange Guy is Putin's puppet. The fact that Europe and Ukraine aren't invited to (even though they are a sham) the "Ceasefire" talks when they are very much a part of what's going on is just more proof of that fact.
I mean...Biden could have done a lot more for #Ukraine when he has the power. Spent most of his term telling them not to use the weapons we gave them or do anything too line-steppy against Russian aggression.
He seriously believed he had a whole other term to fix this.
Did you fall on your head or something? Joe Biden went to Kiev and stood shoulder to shoulder with President Zelenskyy. This is ALL on the felon Russian asset and his goose stepping minions.
Yeahhh, and it helps that these national leaders understand what Russia is about, but...if President Zelensky resigns, I don't think Russia will keep the peace...
I'm ashamed of the goons who refused to vote for Kamala because of their ego, with a desire to punish Democrats literally no legitimate reason like a fake genocide half a world away and for "Not being progressive enough", as if Democrats have ever been in a position to enact any sweeping changes/
/since 1977. People who refuse to vote Democrat, but flock to any two-bit grifter who confirms their ignorance and tells them that the Democratic Party is the problem, when the idiots not voting Democrat are the problem.
What do we expect from a child predator? Anything he does will always be the worst available option. If he had to choose between a free cure for cancer he could take credit for and torturing civilians and getting away with it, he'd pick the latter. Child predators want domination and fear.
Ukraine will win the war against Russian aggression, with or without USA help. NATO was created after WWII because of countries concern (particularly Europe) about Russian agression. NATO needs to rethink its position in regard to the USA since Trump supports Russia at every opportunity.
Im grateful to those who are standing up from Ukrainians 🇺🇦! I stand with you Ukraine as well! F my government for siding with your abuser, the Putain. Much love Ukrainians!
I am visiting friends in Winnipeg this weekend. I chatted with a mom about raising children in multiple languages (we are French-speakers) etc. when I told her I was American, her face was filled with sadness and pity. She rubbed my shoulder and gave me a hug.
Us rational Americans are utterly horrified by this. Our democracy is being dismantled against the will of the people and WE do not support the attack on our allies
I wonder why someone from the US ‘opposition’ could not have gone - we have senators from both parties who support Ukraine. Could they not legitimately attend?
Trump is an idiot who is uniting Europe and creating another super power and a major economic powerhouse that will cripple American dominance in the world
How low we’ve come that we cannot side with Ukraine. Our congress gave Zelensky a standing ovation under President Biden but suddenly we turn on him because a MORON tells us to?
Only those who stand for freedom will show respect, some who stand to make rubels from the kremlin will be there too, the rest, they just don't care about the world falling into the hands of dangerous people in expensive suits...
I wish it were so but it's like virginity, you lose it forever. Even under a Democrat president, no ally can now trust the US further than the next election.
Watched the post meeting presser with all leaders (incl 🇨🇦) & Zelensky. Impressive unity of purpose & resolve. US barely mentioned says a lot about where these guys are.
They want US to be involved but don’t need drama & are moving to win or solution they define
It is a disgrace we are not there to support Ukraine and our allies. Glad to see European countries are doing the right thing. Doing the right thing leaves atrump, once again, with egg on his face.
Meanwhile, Italy's Prime Minister is trying to both keep appearing as a fervid supporter of Ukraine AND selling out our Country to Trump and Musk, in the hope of a more favorable economic treatment from them. Shameful. She should decide once and for all on which side of the fence she stands.
The sooner the republicans wake up to what they have allowed to lead them the better! They have allowed a monster to walk amongst them! And someone who works for Putin’s Russia!
The U.S. does seem to have a sort of revolution in the works, what their increasing wealth inequality and oligarchs playing politics with their $billions. Let's hope it's not as bloody as the French did it.
Aren't revolutions paid for in blood?
And the French had made some good points about unwanted monarchs.
For those of us in the U.S. that didn't choose this, we are trying to figure out how to stop it.
You are correct, we have a responsibility. When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
Pedro Sanchez! I'm glad he's standing with Ukraine. I'm originally from Spain. Frederich Merz has also indicated he will be an enduring partner for Ukraine.
If anything, they basically showed that our 'rival' has been all talk this whole time. Meaning every Red Dawn (1984), World in Conflict, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 scenario was just as plausible as Red Dawn (2012).
I’m deeply ashamed of all the previously-pro-Ukraine-anti-Russia republicans who sided with a malignant narcissist just bc they’re afraid of losing their positions of power.
May we never forget what the enabled.
Krasnov can be found on the all you can eat omelette bar before playing 18 holes of golf which will cost the American tax payers over $3 million… not including the omelette(s)
True leaders of their people at work. If only the US were so lucky. I hope the 13 in Kiev today help Zelensky remove the knife the Americans left in his back.
We all know how this is going to go, laughably predictable
-US stops sending weapons after multiple escalating demands
-Russian offensive after stockpiling
-Ukraine front collapses
-Rape and pillaging by Russians
-Trump: "They should have made a deal"
-Russia threatens Poland/Romania/Baltics
The American people don't want this, nobody can blame them. Our relationships are with the country & the people - not the administration. They come & go (hopefully😅)
I know my friend but I want it out there not to show our US friends up but to prove he's a liar & Ukraine have to pay protection money via minerals deal.
It reflects on the current state of America and our education system. Reagan started the decline with his trickle down economics. We’ve continually decimated our education and government programs to give wealthy people more money, while starving the rest of the country. Not all of us voted for it
Although I have studied some modern American history, I don't know the details of how education became so poor in America. (America's literacy rate is below the world average. Not just developed countries, all UN countries. Below Libya, Syria, Jamaica, etc.) How did it happen?
Mitch McDonnell led Republicans to defund public education for decades Dems did not protect it. The GOP benefits from an ignorant population, incapable of critical thought. It was by design.
Given that education is govt controlled, for the most part, that's where we look.
My guess is that the #CoupKluxKlan Rs have been doing this for 10+ years as part of their corrupt Christian shit so that they could do what they're doing now.
The decline of America stretches further back, I believe. I think education in most developed countries is govt-controlled (as opposed to control by private interests) but the curriculum is generally transparent.
You are correct -- fundamentalist Xianity plays a large role in limiting education. 😔
Trickle Down much like deregulation is premised on being benevolent, doing what’s in the best interest of everyone & acting in good faith. It never accounted for greed. We saw that vividly during the pandemic, when price gouging was rampant. Supply and Demand pricing promotes price gouging
I think it was premised more on a theory of the economy which is false. If business owners channeled their funds into the business -- hiring more, expanding, etc. AND providing benefits and fair salaries for workers, okay. But they channeled them to shareholders, stock buybacks and cash balances.
Putin put in many years of wooing Trump (who laps it up like a dog) and much more spreading disinformation in the US, and so is now able to play Trump like a violin. It's a new Axis of Evil, but Trump doesn't realize he's not the leader, just the new kid with the best toys.
I know the term coup suggests military, so I guess it was largely a cyber coup in that most of it occurred online, w disinformation, propaganda, Russian tactics.
It's not a military coup at this point. America voted for this. It took decades of poor education funding to create a populace that has been brainwashed by politicians and religious figures into believing that education is brainwashing. That's the coup.
While I understand it's easy to just say "America voted for this", the vote wasn't that simple. I understand the anger from what Drumpf has now turned into former allies, but I am given essentially 2 options to vote for. Republican or Democrat. I didn't vote for Drumpf or anyone he endorsed.
The reasons America voted for Trump -- twice -- are complex. It took decades to create this situation. But NOW the leader that America elected is threatening allies and carving up the world with enemies.
All adult citizens in a democracy have a responsibility for the nation they create. I'm sorry.
I don't believe Putin's numbers, of course, but at this point I have no reason to believe the 2024 American election was fraudulent. America voted for Trump.
There are many descendants of early Ukrainian, Polish, and Slavic groups now living as U.S. citizens because their ancestors fought for freedom in WW1 and WW2. We will not forget what our parents and grandparents fought for. This would-be dictator has some Nazi past he favors. Nope.
Never again.
I am glad the rest of the world still stands with Ukraine.
May we, in the Divided States, have an ounce of the Ukraine peoples courage and bravery as we have to defend our own country from the terrorists in the white house. 🙏
In the event of an attack on the US we are screwed. Trump's new authoritarian allies don't want a strong US so they have no reason to come to our assistance, and our current allies have good reason to laugh in our face.
The US democrat just stares as the democrats in Georgia and people in the EU take to the streets massively in their thousands often. The democrat leadership is not even capable of creating massive general strikes. So the lazy democrat has what he wants, why is he surprised? 😀😱😂
Me too. I mean that. Did they do this over the last 3 years in response to Russia, or just in response to trump? It would’ve been nice for the world to aggressively resist 3 years ago.
I'm mad. I'm not ashamed. We citizens have been played. No matter what I did or how strongly I worked, it's the god damn elected (liars) and their millionaire/billionaire buddies who did all of this.
The ones who need to be ashamed are working in the Senate and House.
Didn't Trump remain in contact with Putin while he was out of office? Couldn't have a little "side" government of intelligent and capable officials without jobs who could go to these things?
Thank you to the other nations for stepping up. It’s going to be sometime before the America can help. It’s important for all countries to protect each other and themselves. Our government has taken our country down. America will return one day but not today or tomorrow.
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Ukraine deserves better.
"Freedom" is American marketing for a country founded and always operating as a bisuness
The reality is the US has historically given credit lines with long-term repayment terms to allies fighting a war
The IBM machines were sold well before Pearl Harbor and were maintained by a German division.
To the rest of the world, the USA is the biggest sociopathic bully on the planet.
Libertarianism and global extortion is not the flex you think it is, wtf...
Reparations are different
He seriously believed he had a whole other term to fix this.
And that's pretty weak.
republican minions.
Putin still has the PeePee tape.
Keeping the axis powers at bay is now a global effort, with only earnest nations at the table.
She is a *Kurdish refugee.*
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They want US to be involved but don’t need drama & are moving to win or solution they define
Biggest is its Europe’s job to do
This isn’t just about Ukraine. This is about the future and Putin trying crap like this ever again.
No surrender. No compromise. No more treaties for Putin to break.
Send. Him. Packing.
It’s every citizen’s duty to vote!
Now it’s “ Putin’s Puppet.”
We know there are many millions of good folk in the US mortified by the cholesterol King, and his halfwit billionaire sidekick.
Keep up the good fight. You are a legend.
It would be justice if those that voted for Trump suffered all of the financial hardship that's about to happen.
Sadly it doesn't work like that.
And the French had made some good points about unwanted monarchs.
For those of us in the U.S. that didn't choose this, we are trying to figure out how to stop it.
You are correct, we have a responsibility. When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.
Please, encourage education and literacy. The U.S. is below the world average (!) for literacy rates, and waaaayyy below other developed nations.
People who read history don't choose tyranny.
The United States has no King. Orange man and fElon are nothing more than terrorists.
It is appreciated that there are people in the rest of the world that believe in us. 🥹
Like you, we have idiots, and those idiots are the noisy lot on social media.
But there are many more that are not idiots and we know this.
We are exhausted over here. And scared. But we are doing what we can, even if it's just small acts of kindness.
May my country be used as a prime example as to why education matters.
No idiot should be in charge. And the orange man is an idiot.
But we violently call out the bad.
Sadly we too have been infected with a large dose of stupid.
We are battling them like you are.
We will win though.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fox10phoenix.com/news/donald-trump-felon-travel-38-countries.amp
Let that sink in.
. What or should we say who has sold us out?
May we never forget what the enabled.
The spotlight needs to be on him at all times, Trump does not share.
Edit-button, please 😅
Not exactly. She spoke in support of Ukraine but never mentioned Russia and today she has a breakfast with an emir
The rest of "us" support Ukraine - a sovereign democracy that was illegally invaded by Russia.
President Xi calls Putin.
Several world leaders travel to Kyiv in solidarity with the Ukrainian people.
America continues its blackmail of Ukraine for control of its natural resources.
-US stops sending weapons after multiple escalating demands
-Russian offensive after stockpiling
-Ukraine front collapses
-Rape and pillaging by Russians
-Trump: "They should have made a deal"
-Russia threatens Poland/Romania/Baltics
-NATO disbands and reforms without the US
-China attacks Taiwan
-UN does nothing
Well you know ....
Trump doing the bidding of his masters
https://youtu.be/w0B4eE8q2ug?si=gxT_w8mVusBTDNth
Anything who believes Putin isn't a demented terrorist war criminal monster of evil is one of them.
Slava 🇺🇦
This is the result - the broligarchy of pasty asshead tech geeks.
The increase in wealth inequality is alarming. This is exactly what led to the French Revolution. I'm afraid America will get bloody.
My guess is that the #CoupKluxKlan Rs have been doing this for 10+ years as part of their corrupt Christian shit so that they could do what they're doing now.
You are correct -- fundamentalist Xianity plays a large role in limiting education. 😔
It is deeply faulty bc it is premised on idea of goodwill of wealthy. Didn't work.
It's pissed off, corrupt, crusty, white, pretend Christian misogynazis who have basically rigged the system to their selfish, grotesque advantage.
And, to cover up their crimes by controlling the system.
fElon said if Kamala won, he'd go to jail. obvi, so would #Krasnov
Putin wins his elections by nearly 90%
You believe those numbers?
Neither do Russians but there’s nothing they can do about it
Also, still have a question about those Russian sourced bomb threats. Mainly, who stayed in those rooms when they were evacuated & where is the video?
Disgusting Putin position on Ukraine is also VERY telling.
I know the term coup suggests military, so I guess it was largely a cyber coup in that most of it occurred online, w disinformation, propaganda, Russian tactics.
It's stochastic terrorism and clear #kleptocracy
Attitudes towards, say, racism, would show this chasm.
#Krasnov cabinet is mostly Faux notnews, trained actors, and freakkks.
All adult citizens in a democracy have a responsibility for the nation they create. I'm sorry.
Are you sure?
Putin wins his elections by nearly 90%
You believe those numbers?
Neither do Russians but there’s nothing they can do about it
UN vote resolution speaks volumes. Most Americans - almost 85% hate Putin.
Never again.
May we, in the Divided States, have an ounce of the Ukraine peoples courage and bravery as we have to defend our own country from the terrorists in the white house. 🙏
#freepalestine #genocide #israelapartheid
The ones who need to be ashamed are working in the Senate and House.
Stop playing by the rules. They aren't.