Russia Invades Ukraine

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Zelinski was supposedly here to sign a deal, but he decided (for whatever ridiculous reason) to put Trump on the spot and try and get a better deal... It backfired spectacularly.
Like someone was saying, he met with the Senate before and I wonder if they kissed his ass and gave him all kinds of phony assurances.

Plus we know he's a cocky asshole anyway. He's been used to getting his way on everything.
 

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I was just listening to the interview Zelensky had with Brett Baher and he (Zalenski) said something that that kind of raised an eyebrow, he said that he feels that certain discussions need to be done behind “closed doors”... Obviously this guy does not like the concept of complete transparency. If this had happened away from the cameras, he could have made-up whatever narrative he wanted to instead of exposing his true agenda for all the world to see... Sorry, that's not how this administration operates. Anytime anyone suggests doing something out of sight should throw up red flags.
 

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I was just listening to the interview Zelensky had with Brett Baher and he (Zalenski) said something that that kind of raised an eyebrow, he said that he feels that certain discussions need to be done behind “closed doors”... Obviously this guy does not like the concept of complete transparency. If this had happened away from the cameras, he could have made-up whatever narrative he wanted to instead of exposing his true agenda for all the world to see... Sorry, that's not how this administration operates. Anytime anyone suggests doing something out of sight should throw up red flags.
That’s a good point. And one that I thought about when Trump said “Americans should see this”, it’s the exact thing someone would say that knows the media will run with sourced material about what what said and who said it behind closed doors.

Trump absolutely baited that grifter into showing his exact attitude toward this whole war.

I guarantee you that Biden let him get away with telling him America needs to fund that war or else the ramifications will be felt by America next.

That little troll needed to be dressed down in front of the county. He’s lucky Trump isn’t the tyrant the left tries to paint him as, he would have been hung in the rose garden and his little shit stain country would have been nuked before his neck had a chance to snap.
 

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That’s a good point. And one that I thought about when Trump said “Americans should see this”, it’s the exact thing someone would say that knows the media will run with sourced material about what what said and who said it behind closed doors.

Trump absolutely baited that grifter into showing his exact attitude toward this whole war.

I guarantee you that Biden let him get away with telling him America needs to fund that war or else the ramifications will be felt by America next.

That little troll needed to be dressed down in front of the county. He’s lucky Trump isn’t the tyrant the left tries to paint him as, he would have been hung in the rose garden and his little shit stain country would have been nuked before his neck had a chance to snap.
Exactly... The left is freaking out saying that negotiations like this should not be held out in the open, hello, this was not supposed to be a negotiation in the first place. This was supposed to be a simple formality for him to sign the previously negotiated deal. If he had an issue with the deal, he should have brought it up before he got on the plane. Zalenski tried to raise the stakes holding two pair, unfortunately Trump was holding four aces.
 

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Obviously this guy does not like the concept of complete transparency. If this had happened away from the cameras, he could have made-up whatever narrative he wanted to instead of exposing his true agenda for all the world to see.

EXACTLY.
 

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We should do the funniest thing ever and invite Russia to join NATO.
Few people know (you probably do) that I think when Putin first took over... Or maybe closer to the Wall falling... That they wanted to. But were refused.

It's kind of funny to think about though, considering they were formed to stop Russia.

Anyway... bigger picture, Trump would like to break the bonds of Russia and China. Strategically it's dangerous to us to have those two on the same side and back during the cold war we knew this, or at least Nixon did. Russiagate pushed those two back together.

Of course, the Left would rather call Trump a Putin Puppet and perpetuate a new Russiagate all day long than ever do what's strategically beneficial to the country.
 

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Of course.

If you don't spend unlimited taxpayer money on a war that has nothing to do with US territorial integrity and cannot and never will be won, you're a Putin stooge!!!1!
 

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Of course.

If you don't spend unlimited taxpayer money on a war that has nothing to do with US territorial integrity and cannot and never will be won, you're a Putin stooge!!!1!
I get it, but has anyone seen what we've allowed Israel to do lately with our support? And let's not kid ourselves, they aren't doing anything without American backing and tax payer dollars. They have basically annexed southern Syria. But there is no outrage there. Only for Ukraine. There is no blathering about Bibi is a dictator or stopping the flow of our money to them. Just so weird to me, the selective outrage.
 

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I get it, but has anyone seen what we've allowed Israel to do lately with our support? And let's not kid ourselves, they aren't doing anything without American backing and tax payer dollars. They have basically annexed southern Syria. But there is no outrage there. Only for Ukraine. There is no blathering about Bibi is a dictator or stopping the flow of our money to them. Just so weird to me, the selective outrage.
I won't pretend to know the details of Israel. I know in recent history we sent a shit load of money to Ukrain. I think the financial support to Israel has been less recently. But yeah, I'm not a big fan of funding either military. The support of Israel has a pretty long history with the US. So people don't get as offended by it as they do the Ukrain financial support. My preference would be to back out of all of it by Trump.
 

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I get it, but has anyone seen what we've allowed Israel to do lately with our support? And let's not kid ourselves, they aren't doing anything without American backing and tax payer dollars. They have basically annexed southern Syria. But there is no outrage there. Only for Ukraine. There is no blathering about Bibi is a dictator or stopping the flow of our money to them. Just so weird to me, the selective outrage.
Ukraine and Israel are two completely different situations...

Ukraine supposedly has help from the EU (although they are as useless as tits on a bull), but we are sending the lion's share of the resources.

Israel on the other hand is not only our direct (and the only real) ally, but they are our proxy in the Middle East. If it were not for them, who do you think would have to do the dirty work of preventing Iran from getting nuclear weapons? I mean we did kind of have them (Iran) shut down until Joe Biden decided to unfreeze a shit ton of their own money.
 

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I could not really hear it all, but the people of the UK have just got to be loving the idea of sending troops into Ukraine… Did he say that this was going to be done before or after a ceasefire?
 

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In case the most naive among us don't understand, when Zelenskyyyyyyyyy says he wants "guarantees", boots on the ground is exactly where that leads.

Fuck every single bit of that.

And as proof that this is what Zelenskyyyyyyyyy wants, not peace at all, but US and EU boots on the ground:


 
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