Trump says US will not make Ukraine security guarantees ‘beyond very much’ and Kyiv can ‘forget about’ joining Nato – live
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The EU is more likely to dissolve than to federalize.
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No worries, Macron has been working very hard to put an end to Françafrique and it is already mostly over
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the reason they gave up their nuclear weapons was that it was an expensive and cumbersome responsibility that they had no practical use for outside of dirty bombs and terrorist tactics, as they didnt have the means to launch the missiles.
an often forgotten bit of information too, is that during this time, the USA was NOT friendly with Ukraine, the US Government did not Trust Ukraine an inch, and was not going to tolerate them to have nuclear weapons.
in 1991 the world went from having like 7 Nuclear states, to 10 all in the blink of an eye. and the 7 who were there before, wanted the new crowd removed immediatley from the club
The world treated the Russian Federation as if it was the replacement for the USSR, and Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan were not going to be tolerated keeping these weapons, if they did, they would have been treated like North Korea or Iran.
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NATO will not see any new members again.
the Alliance is more or less defunct as there are trojan horses in it like Hungary, and America's refusal to honor Article 5 is an open secret now.
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the Alliance is more or less defunct as there are trojan horses in it like
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Russia has been doing the things people Hate America for, longer than America has existed.
the only reason people turn a blind eye to it is because they are used to thinking of Russia as this huge country with all this territory. And not as a Country that wages war all over the corners of the world because they dont have force projectionthere are hundreds of millions of people in the world who feel the same way about Russia as contemporary people feel about America since the end of WW2... Except they exist along Russias borders and not scattered across the planet like Central America, Iraq, Libya and Vietnam.
Russia murdered, raped, pillaged, and genocided its way into where it is, Russia is a prison of nations.
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Zelenskyy would probably get more support from his people if he told trump to get fucked
Oh how I wish this was true but a lot of Ukrainians are so weary they really just want the war to end and are frustrated with Zelensky. Believe me not everyone has the moral high ground or integrity, many, many just want him to make any kind of deal, no matter how big the insult and humiliation are.
("Moral high ground" and "integrity" are very heavy words in this context. Right now, after just watching the argument, I am a bit speechless and can't find better words. But please know that I do not want to refer to these people as having no integrity, morals, ideals, etc. They are desperate and have lost so much I can't even put it in words.)
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Will the rare earth they send us be in a bucket? Like a paint bucket? Or even more rare like in a small envelope? Will it also be strange? Rare and strange? Or rare and weird? So many chooses!
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That's a good point and thanks for the perspective. Of course I don't know what it's like for anyone in Ukraine at the moment, and I can understand the desperation. But trump is a thug, and a wannabe gangster. He will burn all of Ukraine if he thinks it will benefit him. His word is worthless, and so is any deal with the US. Every world leader knows that, it's just so frustrating that none will stand up and say it, they just keep treating him like a legitimate president when he's so clearly not.
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an expensive and cumbersome responsibility
Wait till they see how expensive and cumbersome fighting a war is...
What do you have to say about Ukrainians setting up defenses other than nukes?
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I dont think the Ukrainians in 1991 thought that Russia was going to launch a full scale invasion against them in 2022.
even though they were seperate countries and nations, with a rocky history. Russia, Ukraine and Belarus mutually agreed to leave the Soviet Union as independent entities. I dont think they were anticipating a fascist heel turn in Russia so soon. Remember it was the Drunk Yeltsin in power at that time, Putin didnt come into the picture for another 5-8 years