Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Giving everything to one side and nothing to another is not a deal. Any fool can do that. Writing off 80years of partnerships is not a deal either. Trump can't make deals, he wouldn't fail in every business if he could. Just because he titled a book the art of the deal does not make him a dealmaker. Hes a first class clown.

Hes exactly like Piers, a waffler who doesn't mind who he hurts as long as he profits.

A BRILLIANT Speech .. everyone here should watch this:

I think he really gets to the core of whats going on now - whats that phrase?

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

He doesnt mince his words and uses indisputable history to make his points. Very elequent also

Dem. Governor of Illinois Pritzker drew parallels between Trump's populist agenda and the rise of the Nazis prior to World War II in his State budget address on Wednesday.

"Tyranny requires compliance. Democracy requires courage". - Pritzker

I absolutely agree. I think the word" superpower " can be bandied about far too easily. EG the superpower Russia were/ are unable to overrun Ukraine and previously failed ,as did America in Afghanistan. America completely fucked up in Vietnam and let's be honest has elevated a pompous but intellectually limited loudmouth to the most important job in the country. IMO a united Europe has a much greater claim to superpower status than either russia or America.

History again .. An FYI for some

From WIKIPEDIA - "Zelenskyy's grandfather, Semyon Zelenskyy, served as an infantryman, reaching the rank of colonel in the Red Army (in the 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division) during World War II; Semyon's father and three brothers were killed in the Holocaust."

Trump in a bad way financially?? What happened with the Crypto he launched? With him being the main shareholder. After the launch, it went to extreme heights, and just before it collapsed, Trump sold his shares, making a fortune overnight. Many of his MAGA followers were not so lucky..so convinced that anything that had Donnies name on it was a sure fire, cast iron guaranteed winner, they borrowed to buy shares, and as a result were left not only penniless, but in debt.

The US is opposing calling Russia the aggressor in a G7 statement on the third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, threatening to derail a traditional show of unity, the Financial Times reports

https://www.ft.com/content/73809e7a-a772-403a-8755-41a329d6a45d ( paywall )

He is talking here about a deal not about a freebie that Trump wants.

No one has mentioned something odd that Putrid said vis a vis the PetPuppy talks, where he claimed the Orcs had made a fresh incursion into Ukraine.

MOSCOW – Kyiv on Feb 19 rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that his troops had crossed into Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region in the first ground attack there since 2022, calling it a “lie”.

Any attempt by Russia to seize more Ukrainian territory in a new part of Ukraine would mark a fresh escalation in the war, just as US President Donald Trump is pushing for a rapid end to the fighting.

“I was told an hour ago that at night fighters of the 810th brigade crossed the border of the Russian Federation and Ukraine, and entered the territory of the enemy,” Mr Putin said in televised remarks, adding that “our troops are advancing along the entire contact line”.

Russian state media reported that the 810th brigade was deployed to Russia’s Kursk region, which borders Ukraine’s Sumy region.

The DeepState website, with ties to Ukraine’s military, also said that the brigade was fighting in the Kursk region, where Ukraine has been mounting an offensive since August.

Kyiv rejected the claims of a major Russian operation and said it had destroyed a small sabotage group.

Given I have heard nothing in the days since Putrid made the claims, I'm siding with Ukraine's claim they snuffed them.

New American flag-

lol guys, like you never seen this poster and his/her posts before. There has never been a doubt which side of stick they belong

There's a big difference between offering a partnership at a fair price / access to resources and being held at gunpoint and being robbed blind.

Pritzker! Jesus wept, he'd know all about tyranny and compliance wouldn't he.

If you're a big fan of the trans-medical industrial complex, he's the guy (along with the Rothblatt fellow) who started it and has a massive financial stake in it. He's doesn't give two craps about Ukraine. He'd be the guy picking through corpses and wondering what bits he could sell.

I have news for the attention seeking missile - you are not standing 'with' Ukraine unless you are doing the standing in Ukraine - meaning troops and planes facing the same consequences of actually standing in Ukraine being faced daily by Ukrainians.

"We are convinced of the need to increase our defence and security spending and capabilities for Europe and each of our countries. Decisions will be made in the coming days and weeks."

Wrong answer to the problem. Flipping Trump the bird, calling him out as an imbecile and Putrid stooge and putting EU member state armed forces in Ukraine is the correct answer.

Zelensky tried diplomacy with Trump; complimenting him, stroking his ego in the required manner, biting his tongue at appropriate moments, and it all made not a skerrick of difference as to how the orange mongrel actually acted in the end, which was with complete and utter betrayal - a sycophantic sucking up to his Orc master.

European 'leaders' need to do a lot better than Biden's scurrilous 'whatever it takes, as long as it takes' to save Ukraine, because that's what Macron's statements sound like.

Oh that's just terrible news, poor things, I feel so sorry for them.

All happening very quickly.