'We've lost a partner and a friend': Ukrainians somber as U.S. partnership disintegrates
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'We've lost a partner and a friend"
Canada has similar feelings.
But we still support our Ukranian friends, despite the crisis our downstairs neighbor is experiencing.
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I agree with everything you wrote, but I don't think they carved up only Ukraine in that phone call. At least all of Europe, possibly the entire world.
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The problem here is that the US doesn't need Ukraine for any of those things. They have their own deposits.
Trump doesn't actually care. That's just a cover for his real goal, which, just like his idol Putin, is a purely megalomaniacal/narcissistic desire to be remembered in history as "[Trump|Putin] the Great" for expanding the size of their respective empires.
Trump couldn't care less which of Ukraine, or Gaza, or Greenland, or the Panama Canal Zone, or Canada that he gets a piece of, as long as he gets something. And if he fails at all of those, expect him to make up even more bullshit excuses to send the US on even more imperialist adventures.
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You're not wrong. I just like to point out the actual logical folly now and again so that people in the middle (if any are left) can see the folly.
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Sorry Ukraine. Turns out most of the US is either just fucking evil, or not bothered enough by evil to lift a fucking finger to stop it.
I really thought we were better than this. We've failed the entire planet.
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Ironic how people shat on Russians for not standing up to their government only for the US to do the same.
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When you say footage, do you mean like actual combat footage?
If so I think that's excellent.
You are absolutely right the US is completely isolated from the reality of unpleasantness that is often in the world, often because of us.
Our only exposure to real evil and violence is in movies and TV and everything else is 'tastefully' censored.
So we debate policy like war and diplomacy completely isolated from the actual reality that those policies create. -
What should an individual American do?
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Absolutely. We need to go to websites like krudplug or kaotic in order to see actual war footage.
I think it's intentional. If more Westerners could see the horrors of war outside of hollywood movies, they might be more inclined to stop it.
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Answering that directly would be a violation of rule #6.
What should the individual German citizen have done in the 1920s and 1930s to prevent the Nazis from rising to power and/or to resist them once they were in power? Cuz... that.
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Probably smells so bad
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Pretty sure you could answer my question without breaking any rules.
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The crazy half is in control right now and there's not much we can realistically do. With the amount of Republicans who like the current situation and bootlickers who are indifferent protests or other means aren't likely to affect anything. Maybe if the US slides into another great depression public sentiment can shift enough to make a change but until then no one should be treating us like a rational country.
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Accurate.
I feel genuinely bad for the Ukrainians who put their faith in the West.
Hopefully this will be a learning experience for all future nations, but I doubt it.
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I mean, part of the answer isn't against the rules: leave your cell phone at home.
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The crazy half is in control right now and there's not much we can realistically do.
That's defeatist. There is a lot that can be done. You could pressure your representatives to gum up congress so much with filibusters, and unnecessary votes to slow down what Trump can actually get done. You could join the democratic party with others and start demanding that they change from within. You could support local or internet grassroots campaigns who resist Trump. If the only thing you're going to do over the next four years is wait to vote Democrat again then there's not much you're realistically Willing to do.
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It's fine for you to suggest Americans should take up arms against their government.
That said, do you really think the individual American should do that?
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No wonder Michelle Obama doesn't show up to Presidential events anymore if she doesn't have to.
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I have been, Trump's not really using congress he's EO banging and violating the constitution and courts are slow to react, if they even will stop him. Even in congress you have to convince Republican congresspeople whose constituents LIKE what's happening.
I never said give up. Keep trying. Just other countries shouldn't be expecting this shit to work and the US to magically be rational again in a couple months. We could be under a Republican dictatorship, a military coup, or a civil war in the next couple years for all I know. We're unstable.
