Trump Pauses Military Aid to Ukraine After Clash With Zelenskiy
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You wish the US to be a genocidal empire? poof nothing's changed
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Economic sanctions on the early RSFSR after the Bolsheviks defeated the English, French, Italian, USA coalition that invaded them in the Russian Civil War.
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the peaceful state it was in
Was it though? Wasn't the Ukrainian government at war with separatist militias in Eastern Ukraine prior to 2022?
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For the millionth time: the results are out. The fraction of dem voters who stayed home because of the Gaza genocide isn't high enough to warrant the loss. Stop blaming the people who stood the strongest against genocide.
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It's very illegal. He has already been impeached once for withdrawing military aid to Ukraine in his first term.
And you see where that got us.
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Not even like legit access for US companies, but like they do for oligarchs in Russia
Our legitimate mining corporations, their evil oligarchic resource exploiters
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Yeah indeed, but now he has got the full backing and more Trump tronies?!
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Congress is a check and balance to executive power, just like the judicial.
They are not checking or balancing his power. So they are in effect, impotent.
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Checks and balances are only are good as the morals of the people enforcing them.
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What suburb are you in that you get a whole house for 250k AND doordash still delivers there???
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I'm sure it was meant as sarcasm, but it's obviously true.
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Take a look on Zillow.
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This isn't quite right. Trump didn't really modify laws. That isn't even something he can claim to do since he is the head of the Executive branch, not the Legislative one. He issued executive orders, many of which were illegal, and he had some cronies who enacted some of them anyway - others did not enact some of these. He did rescind many policies, but he can't just make laws go away on his own. There are literally hundreds of court cases currently challenging these executive orders - seeing as how the judiciary is the primary check on the executive branch, that is the system working to check presidential power.
However, I am not a liberal, I am a socialist and do not think this is working well - there are many problems here. The highest levels of the judiciary have been largely captured by far-right judges, many of whom are specifically aligned with Trump's goals and support the unitary executive theory. Also, this method of checking presidential power is extremely slow. For every illegal action Trump's administration takes, a court case has to be crafted, filed, heard, and adjudicated. Every one. And invariably, some will not reach the correct outcome and others will never actually be taken to court - there are just too many.
Basically, the administration is using the fact that they control every branch of government to dismantle or capture core government agencies and to provide cover for various illegal actions - forcing them through if only temporarily for various political and structural ends. A soft coup, basically. So yeah, the fact that something like this is possible is proof of the flaws inherent in this system of government.
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That may be because Trump doesn't know about it. May stop anytime, just like "cyberwar".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2er34w0jgdo -
So they don't formally exist and the entire political game is just about whether you choose the good or the bad representatives, and all knowledge and legislation about institutions is liable to be simply ignored without penalty
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That's a lot of words to say that I'm right in practice even if not in principle lmao.
I'm a commie too, BTW. You're way too charitable to the US institutions IMO.
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It is for Congress to decide such matters. It says so right in our constitution, but our Legislative branch has been ceding their ability to check Executive overreach for decades. Now, with a complicit Congress as the majority, they will never challenge Trump on anything he does, no matter how unconstitutional or illegal it might be. Same goes for the Judiciary as well, chock full of partisan hacks who bend and twist their interpretation of the language of the constitution to cherry pick a favorable ruling for anything that Trump does.
Basically, our system of checks and balances that are meant to keep one aspect of the government from becoming too powerful has been completely subsumed by ideologues who prefer monarchy to democracy. The executive now essentially has unchecked authority and is in full control of the government apparatus.
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Are they wearing a Russian military uniform? Then they are an enemy combatant.
It's really not that hard, dude.
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So the record currently stands at...
Zelensky - Let's try a deal, we just need security guarantees
Trump - Why are you so Disrespectful?
Zelensky - Let's try a deal, we just need security guarantees
Trump - Putin is a victim we're undoing sanctions
Zelensky - Let's try a deal, we just need security guarantees
Trump - Why won't Zelensky do a deal?
Zelensky - Let's try a deal, we just need security guarantees
Trump - We're stopping Aid.
