Trump tells Zelensky 'make a deal or we're out' in angry White House meeting
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All these years after winning it. That’s some special war-fightin right there!
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But he doesn't even understand how that works, he thought it was protection money. "Ya gotta pay your bills"
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i need something to bring my blood pressure down. i am flushed with anger. make your own mirror of this if you download yt-dlp run from command line
yt-dlp https://youtu.be/uqOOOR7Kr-s
"this is gonna be great television, i'll tell you that" - Donald Trump, 025/28/2, he tried to bully Ukrainian president Zelenskyy on live tv
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I sure as hell hope we don't make our support contingent on securing mineral rights from Ukraine while they're over a barrel.
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They can be both.
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This was very helpful to read. Thank you.
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That’s the only way anyone can beat us
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Those people sound like Harris voters, but you sure managed to fit in all your buzzwords
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Few things age like as they’re happening!
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Conservative be like: "NOOOO WE CANT 'WASTE MONEY' AND FUND A COUNTRY DEFENDING ITSELF FROM INVASION
"Also conservatives: "Lets cut social security and give money to israel so they can commit a genocide
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They're also going to gut IRS. So there will be less revenue.
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Oh
You think there is less revenue?
Tariffs and sales tax doesn't need IRS
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As a point of clarity. Trump demanded a ridiculous share of minerals from Ukraine. Zelensky wanted to negotiate that. Trump essentially told him there was no negotiation. They could give up half of their future mineral wealth or they could kick rocks.
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look you gotta say the date biggest to smallest. that way it's impervious to nationalist math confusion.
if i did it wrong then we'll just rewrite the rules in my favor
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also crickets when it comes to israel.
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If you’re imagining some kind of first strike situation I think you’re barking up the ring tree. However, the US is extremely vulnerable economically.
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The NATO wargamed expectation for the Baltic's is that Russia invades very quickly ( faster than the planned ukraine 3 day operation as they're smaller), overthrowing the government before NATO can react in the expectation that NATO would struggle to invade a deafeated nation, and so fragmenting the alliance.
If this sounds insanely risky, well Putin never did it. But as a plan it's not too bad.
I think you know better than me the state of Europe's readiness to counter this, they are extremely aware of the possibility.The other point is that for Ukraine support this isn't just a generic issue with size of military in the abstract, Europe as a whole does not have enough factories producing specifically artillery shells to support the artillery dominated land war in Ukraine.
Ramping those up would take time, so even if Europe tries to help the forms it can take will differ to the USA and force different (worse? I can't judge) choices on the ground.
