White House directs officials to draft proposal to lift US sanctions on Russia
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The real lesson is to run down your enemies as they retreat. America failed to do that with the south after the Civil War. America failed to do that with the Sov Union. Looks like the allies failed to do that with the Axis as well. Every evil entity will roll over and beg for mercy with crocodile tears. Leave the people, annihilate the state.
Either recruit people to your side or marginalize and destroy them completely. There's no in between.
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Well yeah, it's part of o365 now.
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I was originally replying to the post above that said: "50% of the country loves their strongman president more than freedom or common sense." I was specifically disputing the 50% figure in regards to "loving" Trump. So you're arguing something else entirely.
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You're an idiot then. He was literally a KGB agent. This isn't even hard to find information, if you Google him it's on Wikipedia you've done literally zero research.
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What's quite funny is that in Europe there was never really much hatred for communism. It wasn't what we did, but we weren't bothered by it. The red scare was an entirely American phenomenon.
However fast forward 40 years and suddenly it's the reverse. America like Russia and Europe is talking about the threat of invasion.
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Given how things are going a fair number then probably won't be card carrying Trump supporters for much longer. They're already pretty pissed off with him.
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If china is about to kill you economy, who gives a damn about Russia?
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I understand what you're saying. I also dispute the 50% number.
I'm saying only 30% of the country voted for him, 30% against, and 40% voted with their asses, making the effective amount of "love" 70%, not 50%.
Approval rating of ~50% notwithstanding, he has a 70% mandate to fuck shit up when we have 40% ass-voters.
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Oh so being a KGB agent is being the president, got it. Who’s the idiot again?
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I disagree. There's no "mandate" when so many voters are so disaffected with politics that they'd rather stay home than express themselves at the polls.
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I understand and respect your disagreement.
I view it as a trolley problem: if you don't flip the switch, or you love Krasnov, 3 people die. If you do, 1 person dies.
The ones who do nothing and do not flip the switch are in agreement with the Krasnov lovers since there is no "conscientious objector" button at the polls.
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Maybe from a game theory / trolley problem perspective, sure. But I guess my point is that a "presidential approval rating," as in the current support for the president, is not one to one with how the electorate voted (or didn't vote) four months ago. Especially as we get further from that event over time.
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As good as that would be and as much as I desire it, my impression is that too many of them are trapped in a disinformation bubble to realize what and who is actually causing their problems. Some might, like the former Republican who shot at Trump and the veteran who blew up a Cybertruck, if I understood their motivation correctly, but I doubt such incidents will ever reach the scale for Republicans to reverse their entrenched stance on gun ownership.
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There is some correlation but many marginalized and left-leaning folks (if not outright leftists) seem to be arming themselves, based on my observations at least.
