Trump tells Zelensky 'make a deal or we're out' in angry White House meeting
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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. -
But you just described Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. Didn't even get to keep 50 square kilometers of barren wasteland.
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give them to EU or china instead.
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Tariffs need someone to collect them. And sales tax is very much the IRS. It's not automated just because they itemized your receipt.
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Of course he has. That was the whole point. When he didn't fall in line with the plan, Trump and Vance threw a tantrum. Zelenaky will not just accept peace at any price, he's acting in the best interests of his country and I do not blame the man for it.
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The NATO strategy reacted by placing the ARF there + placing some Polish high readiness forces there.
Artillery shell production is an issue,but has been massively expanded during the last year, so has been the production of other ammo- the issue with Ukraine is more the fact that they do not use NATO standards and that there are a multitude of systems in use.But art. ammo also is an issue for the Russian armed forces,so at least in that direction it basically equals out.
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Well, they might just bring back the pinkertons for that
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NATO is still usefull as a framework for cooperation with the UK, Turkey, Canada and Norway.
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ROFL Krasnov Trump and Vanker failed to make a deal, a bunch of losers.
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I actually love this idea of anonymous crowdfunding by the masses. But how could we make this happen? I guess it would have to be initiated from the Ukrainian government.
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I can already guess the excuse: "Europe started the war by not negotiating a peace deal with Russia when it came to Ukraine."
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? I'm from the UK, I'm saying I hope we're not as overtly sleazy with our support.
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Fun fact: Pinkerton is tanned, rested, and ready to go.
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Holy fucking smokes. This was without a doubt the cringiest, most uncomfortable display of lack of professionalism and pure second-hand embarassment I've ever seen from a president and a vice president.
I have so much respect for Zelensky for putting up with that. What an absolute circus.
