Trump gave Europe three weeks to sign off on Ukraine "surrender": MEP
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Congressional approval is required for acts of war. I know the Republicans have Congress, but are they willing to go that far??
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They got loads of weapons and ammunition, even soldiers.
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Fuck him. First, he'll do what we wants regardless of whether you concede to his demands. If we wants to withdraw troops, he'll withdraw them, no matter what concessions you make to him in hopes of preventing that. Look at his history. Look at how he has treated the other party in Every. Single. One. of the "deals" that he's made. He fucks them over. NEVER believe he'll hold up his side of whatever bargain you make. He won't.
Don't ever concede to this bully. The more you concede, the more demands he'll make, like with a blackmailer. Call his bluff. Say, "Sorry, we don't agree. If that means you'll withdraw, then don't let the screen door hit ya where the good lord split ya on the way out." Bam! End of bullying and if he didn't want to withdraw, he'll find some excuse no to go through with it (or probably just lie and say you agreed to do something for him behind the scenes).
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I don't think they've actually approved a war since Korea. They ceded that power to the president. Congress never declared war on Vietnam, Iraq x2, or Afghanistan. And that's just the big ones.
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The delusion on these forums is palpable.
"If you don't vote in an election, you automatically support one candidate over the other!"
Glad most of it is contained online, though.
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Yeah. We need to prepare to defend Greenland from the US. Having 100.000 enemy troops stationed all over the continent who need to be contained first makes it practically impossible.
And now the mask is finally peeling off. The US bases around the world are not their to defend the countries they are in. They are there to defend the US interests. This should be obvious to anyone, who can read just a little bit of history, but better late than never.
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Most analysts these days say that Ukraine is about to collapse military in the next year. More weapons alone wont cut it anymore as Ukraine is running out of troops to use them.
The strategy of using Ukraine to exhaust Russia, but never give Ukraine what it needed to defend itself fully and win, just for Ukraine to keep not losing, is failing now.
Russia incurrs high losses, but it is not exhausted yet.
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Is that recent picture?
Dude may not have three weeks.
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Russia is losing in Ukraine
I'd like to also take a hit from your pipe, bro. That shit must be very good
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So they need more boots on the ground? I have boots.
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I'm pretty sure he's on Ozempic now.
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I agree, but at least before Trump defending Europe was a common interest of Europe and the USA
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these billionaires have bunkers in NZ, they arnt staying here incase shit like this happens.
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Imagine what he'd look like without the make-up.
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More like
"If you don't vote in an election, you don't prefer one candidate over the other / oppose one candidate!"
Now tell me Harris would've been equally bad...
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Harris would've been better than trump, but that's not the boon you may think it is.
The problem with biden and harris is they convince the left that a slow loss is winning. It's not. The disparity in wealth continued to grow under biden, just not as fast as it would have under trump.
Until the left can grow some cajones and rescind its rampant consumerism, either politician that wins is a loss for the working class.
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And yet it would've been far better to choose the slow loss over the immediate loss
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It's fine if you think that.
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Some notes:
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this is not confirmed, but seems credible enough to speculate about
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regardless of veracity, European defense readiness needs a big boost, and people are working on the instruments that would allow giving that boost
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another source says that Trump is planning cuts in the US armed forces, to the tune of 8% per year [sources that add "for multiple years" remain hearsay for me]
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around January 20, I saw a table circulating on social media, describing Trump's intended cuts, and that table did drop about 21 brigades and paused the development of various capabilities (edit: found it)
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so apparently, the Trump administration intends to lower its defense readiness no matter what, believing it has too much
On this background, not much point negotiating with him. He is framing as an ultimatum what he intends to do anyway. No point getting delayed either.
Just get the framework agreed upon, and quickly start supplying Ukraine with fresh stuff. Ukrainians aren't newbies, for now they have accumulated some small reserves (they knew what to expect under Trump, and Biden's administration pushed the last remains of its assistance out like there was no tomorrow)... but arrival of European assistance must start rapidly increasing within a window of 2..3 months.
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To be fair, Mika Aaltola is known in Finland as a noted populist and doomsayer that has a flair for the dramatic. His foreign policy predictions have also been pretty much all wrong since before the start of war in Ukraine.
I'd take anything he says or leaks with a big spoon of salt.
