• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today
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    5 hours ago

    Moscow? You know drones hit Moscow regularly, right? Nevermind! Just kidding! It’s totally safe! Have a great trip and be sure to try the outdoor cafes while you’re there!

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    Didn’t he say he’d end the war “on day one”?

    It’s day 659.

    If I overran a project by 659x of my original estimate… I would’ve been fired around 3x.

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      13 hours ago

      Politicians should be held to higher standards than its people. And I think a lot of them have gotten a bit too relaxed on this.

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      17 hours ago

      He said a lot of things, in fact half (generous it must be 99.9%) the time he says one thing then he contradicts himself…unless it makes him money then he has 3 other stories and all are just a bit true then filled with his blathering lies.

      Basically dude lies like a sidewalk yet the country with the most powerful military on earth voted for that douche to have the codes.

      My hell torture for Trump would be for him to have to listen to every shitty thing people have to say about him. Only allowed if it’s true too to make it honest.

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    The president’s son in law – who acts as one of the country’s top diplomats despite holding no official role within the Trump administration

    I don’t get why this level of nepotism is accepted really, eventhough this is clearly a distraction envoy that doesn’t really aim at a solution

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      It shouldn’t be allowed. I’m assuming he doesn’t hold an official position because those would typically have background checks and safety measures, as well as a legal obligation to not accept bribes. This way he can easily accept bribes and it isn’t an issue.

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      21 hours ago

      Son-in-Law is just plausible deniabilty that he’s Trump’s handler with familial legal advantages.

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    There never was plans to have a breakthrough. This is just a convenient excuse for Trump officials to fraternize with Moscow in person and without risk of comm leaks. Will never trust a gathering of these psychopaths.

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    Europe should begin its own negotiations with Putin. This is what Europe should propose to Putin. Russia will withdraw from all land it seized from Ukraine after the 2022 invasion. NATO would be dissolved and replaced with a European alliance. Ukraine and Canada would be permitted to join but not the US. All sanctions against Russia will be lifted. Russia will not be required to pay reparations. If Putin doesn’t accept the proposal, the UK and France would send troops to Ukraine.

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      Europe should begin its own negotiations with Putin.

      That should have happened years ago. There’s no logical reason for Europe to abandon its leadership claim on this issue to the United States and it’s indicative of what’s wrong with Europe these days.

      Russia will withdraw from all land it seized from Ukraine after the 2022 invasion.

      What about Crimea? Zelensky has openly stated that Ukraine will not give it up, ever.

      NATO would be dissolved and replaced with a European alliance.

      Don’t threaten the United States with a good time. I’d add that there will be no do-overs; the United States will never again enter into a NATO type alliance nor ride to Europe’s rescue when shit flies off the rails. That last part is important because we’re watching European instability growing in real time. If something doesn’t change there were will another broad war on the continent in my lifetime.

      Ukraine and Canada would be permitted to join but not the US.

      I’d sign off on that deal as long as it contained the previous “no do-over” provision.

      All sanctions against Russia will be lifted.

      Europe doesn’t control all the sanctions. They can only negotiate within their own powers.

      Russia will not be required to pay reparations.

      I doubt that would get much support from Ukraine.

      If Putin doesn’t accept the proposal, the UK and France would send troops to Ukraine.

      Hooo boy…

      The UK is a spent force. Without it’s nuclear arsenal, which the US controls, it has insufficient quantity of anything to really tilt the field. Meanwhile France is burning itself to the ground over an unsustainable and unsolvable debt load that has the possibility of literally ending the Euro. If that’s not enough next years French Presidential elections could bring Melenchon to power, who iss increasingly being described as “The Kremlin’s Spokesperson”.

      So threatening Putin with the UK and France is likely to produce no real fruit unless he knows the US is backstopping their effort and that wouldn’t be likely to happen with this proposal.

      This is also an extremely US / Euro centric take with very little that Ukraine would support and several things that it would probably actively lobby against.

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        Putin will not give up Crimea. It’s better to cede Crimea than much more territory which is what Trump wants.

        Yes, the US would never be permitted to enter the European alliance, but it would be permitted to send forces to Europe if Europe is attacked. However, the US would not be allowed to practice for such an attack on European soil.

        I’m sure the US would follow if Europe lifted sanctions because the US alone wouldn’t have much effect.

        Putin will never pay reparations. It’s better for Ukraine to not get reparations from Russia than accept Trump’s proposal which certainly will mean giving up a lot of territory.

        Putin has to be threatened with military force if he rejects the proposal. Other European countries could replace the UK and France but those are the best countries. There can’t be too many countries because Putin would complain he’s being overwhelmed and must go nuclear.

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    1 day ago

    Epstein investor class vs Everybody else. They have the nukes.