'We've lost a partner and a friend': Ukrainians somber as U.S. partnership disintegrates
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I have been, Trump's not really using congress he's EO banging and violating the constitution and courts are slow to react, if they even will stop him. Even in congress you have to convince Republican congresspeople whose constituents LIKE what's happening.
I never said give up. Keep trying. Just other countries shouldn't be expecting this shit to work and the US to magically be rational again in a couple months. We could be under a Republican dictatorship, a military coup, or a civil war in the next couple years for all I know. We're unstable.
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Yo Zelenskyy!
You haven't lost all of us. There are still those who support the Ukranian people and believe in your efforts.
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May I ask: where do you and @[email protected] learn yourselves up?
Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Economist, MIT International Security Journal…? Would love a lil digest of all
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Unfortunately, he lost the people who have the power to actually help him.
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Such a gross, slimy monster. The xenomorph is creepy, too.
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That's true to some extent, but the EU did announce they were preparing their biggest aid package yet. The unconfirmed number was €700B which works out at about €1500 per citizen and I am all fucking in on that if it's true.
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Honestly loving the fire in Canadian belles I'm seeing recently.
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ha. well I'm not evil, I care, and I haven't lifted a finger. why? cause the way it works here is money. if u want to do something, no matter how good or evil, you need a lot of money...
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Long lazy meandering answer.
My degree is in geophysics, so I'm somewhat professionally connected to the world of resources. So that's where I get that angle.
Physics, as a degree, is somewhat of the universal bullshit detector, since you learn to take what people say and run back-of-napkin math to figure out what is or isn't realistic. "Now hang on, that doesn't sound right... let me check..."
Aside from that, I'm also a fan of historical fiction, geopolitical games (EU4, etc.), and my spare time pursuits tend to send me down research rabbit holes, disentangling the fiction from reality. Largely for my own amusement. But it comes in handy on trivia night if the topic is the Teutonic Knights or something.
In grad school I'd hang out with the philosophers, geographers, and others that were asking large questions with beer in hand. "I'll buy you a beer if you can convince me the electron is real." was not a pickup line, but the start to several hours of liquored debate.
I've been known to be mildly politically active, and sort of on top of the pulse. But never an activist or anything. Observing and predicting is fun.
Today I was in Google Earth just looking at the continent of North America, looking at it as though I were the US playing a strategy game. The major areas of contention right now for the US are: Greenland, Panama, Mexico, and Canada. It's like he is establishing future boundaries at the edges of the continent -- like it is an affront that borders exist on it. Upon further contemplation, Canada is fucked if this is what they're doing. So I created [email protected] to start organizing -- maybe the space will grow organically.
But, no, I don't subscribe to higher end geopolitical info sources. That doesn't mean I eschew them either (ISW was particularly interesting at the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine). I just integrate or search for info when questions are interesting.
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Their constitution has protections on their rights for just such a situation, so they should be quite aware of their rights and what they're capable of as a people.
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Are you suggesting individuals should take up arms against their government?
How exactly do you expect that to look? Did you see what happened Jan 6?
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I just meant the people in the US with the power to help him. Hopefully the EU will be able to step in since the US has decided to go full Nazi.
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Yeah, they got their leader elected… and got pardoned and are walking free, smug as shit.
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Yeah combat footage was on the news
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did you vote? because a lot of people didn't even do that.
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Unity
between lefties and liberals(german communists and socialists) as a common front against the nazi threat would have worked too, but they were busy bickering. That would have helped a lot in the 1930s, but nobody was expecting what was about to happen. We know today what happens when you let fascists in the henhouse, but everyone is doing the same all over again. -
yep. in every single election, not just presidential ones.
the
richestmost convincing liar usually wins and my vote doesn't really matter... but it's all I can do so
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I'm over here hoping we're a cautionary tale for you all right now.
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If any good can come from this it could be a stronger Europe, working towards their own goals and own futures with less concern for American hegemony.
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Agreed, as long as Europe can avoid falling to fascism like we have. Far-right parties have been doing alarmingly well there lately.
