'Panic' in Ukraine as leaked confidential Trump peace plan astounds: report
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That's assuming the existing leadership is intact. I'm starting to think someone has some very bad plans in motion and the only reason it's working is that no one but the head of the dragon (so to speak) is aware of the end result. This isn't even a conspiracy, this is, like, a dozen guys robbing a bank but the robbery is a stealth operation during operating hours, the robbers are the bank managers and that bank is the fucking planet.
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Ok, but domestic shame has nothing to do with geopolitics. Other actors can act on that shame to influence american politics, I guess.
However, if European leaders start taking up the viewpoint that all Americans are racists and imperialists, then relations will only further deteriorate. Americans could be subject to sanctions and banned from Europe. American refugees will be turned away. Americans will be subject to hate crimes. Trump-aligned fascists will play up Americans' fears and use the international hatred of Americans to drum up support.
A state's foreign policy is not, and has never been, equivalent to the culture of it's people.
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Apathy is the big reason for this. About 1/3 of the eligible voters didn't bother to vote. And Trump gained support among black and hispanic voters. Ignorance and apathy were the big drivers of this. And ignorance stems from people too apathetic to learn anything.
And no, democracy is never guaranteed. Some pretty words written by slave owners over a hundred years ago was never going to guarantee democracy. It's just paper. What makes democracy survive is people making an effort to keep it going generation after generation. American exceptionalism created a false belief that the US couldn't be anything other than a democracy. But despite all the chest thumping about freedom and democracy from Americans, it turns out not enough people were willing to make an effort to learn who they were voting for or in many cases even to bother voting at all. That was all that was needed, but it was too much for Americans to bother doing.
There are things Americans can be doing right now, but this Canadian thinks the USA has become a nation that's centered greed and apathy rather than a country of freedom and democracy. I'd be happy if Americans could prove me wrong by fighting back in any way they could, but it looks to me the US lacks the will to save itself.
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Bin Laden would say anything to get recruits. Fact is, Al Qaeda had a lot of operations going on against Saddam Hussein.
But okay, believe everything a mass murderer says. That makes you a very enlightened person LOL
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Dude stop trying to put words in my mouth. I didn't say any of that. I already explained why I thought the democrats were weak and it wasn't for anything you just said. They are weak because they were trying to play by rules the other team clearly didn't play by, they're weak because they arrogantly thought they could keep power beyond their limit, they are weak because they stand for trends instead of standing with the people who vote for them and listening to their real problems. I can't tell you how many times the democrats would come to my community begging for votes and making promises only to walk back on those promises and never come back until the next election promising to do it then.
I never said anything about anyone ruling over me or making decisions for me. I've never whined about anyone else not solving my problems. Where did you even get that? I never even mentioned discussing politics with family, which I do, so why did you just make up more shit to throw against me.
And finally you claim I'm aligned with fascist using the evidence you literally just made up. You are part of the problem. You don't want to accept any criticism on the democrats but instead make up lies about what you claim I said or what you interpret. You don't listen but you'll use lies to discredit and silence me because I don't agree with you.
Everything in that post you claimed I said or that I represent is not true. Stop making shit up.
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If you have 1/3 of eligible voters not voting and loyal voters switching up on you then whose fault is that? You are blaming those voters who didn't vote for who you wanted then to vote for. Why haven't you looked at the party and ask why their message didn't resonate or why they didn't convince those people to vote for the Dems? The Democrats failed. They will continue to fail unless they figure out why they aren't connecting to voters, what voters actually want, and how to change into something good for the people, the country, and can get votes.
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Did you leave it intentionally vague wether you were talking about P or T? I kind of find it nice how it fits both, how similar they are.
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The Iraq embargo, for instance, gave rise to Al Qaeda and the eventual destruction of the World Trade Towers.This is a racist narrative that relies on the assumption that Arabs have no control over themselves and “they’re all the same”.
Nah. Even if we assume (which we do) that Arabs, like any other group of people, aren't all the same, and that they do have (partial) control over themselves, like anyone else ... the decisions and fates of a sufficiently large number of them can still be influenced by a sufficiently large external influence, such as revoked access to international trade. Sometimes in chaotic ways. Heck, if billboard ads work in influencing people, it seems difficult to believe more intrusive changes to people's lifes would have no effect.
Since the article already mentions it, for example Germany between the WWs. The height of reparations was helpful for nationalistic and ultimately again militaristic groups in Germany to gain power. Not as an automatism, not as a justification, simply recognizing a statistical causality. Peace isn't equal peace. What's a foul peace worth? We need conditions which support a stable and peaceful coexistence, not plant the seeds for the next war.
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Do it. Fuck US.
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No, don't Fuck the US. I dont want to pay for Trump and kins sins.
Just fuck Trump, Musk, and the republican party and its support/propaganda network.
I will gladly endorse having foreign forces enter america to arrest these traitors to humanity, to take them to the hague for trial and execution.
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They need to embargo us.
Make the US economy absolute dog shit so the GOP gets nuked in 2026. There's enough GOP Senate seats in play to remove Trump from office in early 2027.
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And this is the problem with "America first." Those who are the most selfish inevitably find themselves alone and miserable.
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It's bitter, but let's make lemonade. Embrace it as the fuel to drive whatever actions seem necessary and possible to you.
Take care of that light which lets you see how hate is no good, although, maybe you can yield it as a shield to brace the storm head on.
We could get philosophical about who that 'you' or 'your soul' is, which feels like being destroyed, and wether it really is. On one hand, this entity will still remain. Though not unchanged. But isn't that a good thing? I prefer being capable of feeling pain, as it sometimes just plainly is a totally appropriate reaction or sensation. I know that feeling of breaking, but on the other hand, if I could not feel that anymore, I surely was already broken. Dull and unmoved. So in a paradoxical sense, it is an affirmation that you are fine, a fine person.
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It would be a grand historical irony if the country that ultimately ensures Ukraine's freedom from Russia ends up being Germany.
"We are here to liberate you from the Russians....and this time, we really mean it!"
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Why would anybody expect a genocidal empire to stop another genocidal empire? They’re the same thing.
Nations don't cooperate/conflict over how many similarities they have (although that makes things easier), but over how much their interests are aligned. It is well possible for two genocidal empires to oppose as adversaries, e.g. Nazi Germany and Soviet Union, the latter being proud of stopping the former.
Another example, colonizing empires fighting over their colonies. Neither did so to free the colony of the oppressor, but to become/remain that oppressor. You can imagine these empires as much the same as you like, they can still have conflicting interests (as in who rules the colony, not wether anyone should) resulting in fights up to World Wars.
Ukraine should have allied with palestinians, the global south, and other people resisting invasion and colonization by empire(s).
How would that have helped them, apart from moral feelings? How many tanks, artillery systems, intel or even humanitarian aid would that have provided? Aren't the proposed countries more receivers of such things than donors?
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Fellow Floridian keeping eyes on an out, but neither my wife nor I are quite "skilled" enough to go be able to get jobs elsewhere. She may be able to but she works in the arts so it likely wouldn't pay much. I could work anywhere being in IT but I'm not specialized enough to get anything they wouldn't just hire locally for.
Hang in there. Ive always said Florida is the best state if it wasn't for the Floridians.
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We've got a housing shortage, so if we open the door to American refugees we're going to need a lot of construction workers.
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Too many people think that everyone in the US deserves to suffer just because 23% of us voted for the Orange Shitstain, and that's if you believe nobody "found" him some extra votes.
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It's because 51% of you didn't vote against him.
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Leaving Nato drastically increases the chances he attacks Canada
and attacking Canada will cause a civil war. 100%
