Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

The recession will be worth it: for the billionaire class who'll become oligarchs (if they haven't already) in the mass sell off of assets (both public and private) that this Trump-made recession will result in. Ordinary Americans are going to suffer in ways they've only seen on CNN until now.

@Manic Moran "dissapointed" is the perfect word. As a child of the 80's I grew up with American propoganda, the interviews with the survivors before and after each episode of Band of Brothers brought a tear to my eye. The cracks in the veneer of the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave" started to show with the election of George W Bush but by electing Trump a second time, America has demonstrated itself to be the "Land of the Stupid and Home of the Racist". It is extremely dissapointing. To hear the US Military coming out with the "Just following orders" trope as their commander in chief wages war on the values the US has always claimed to stand for is beyond dissapointing. To walk around the American Cemetary in Normandy in the knowledge that those men gave their lives for a country that's begun to ape the regime they died fighting is heart-breaking tbh.

https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/us-deletes-evidence-of-russia-s-kidnap-of-thousands-of-ukrainian-children/ar-AA1Bbs46?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=01b954964353497ddf40363191ec13e5&ei=16

What sick alternative reality are we now living in!!

Trumps America is becoming more disgusting and unhinged day by day.

Sure why wouldn't Putin laugh at him.

Trump is really embarrassing himself at this point.

the whole thing is just incredible! jeez,putin is really giving donnie a biggly nappy-wedgie!!!

the world has really changed in my lifetime…never thought id see it,the president of the united states humiliated on the world stage…

Putin loves stuff like that. Remember, he had called Lukashenko for an impromptu press-conference just to make Trump's envoy Witkoff wait for 8 hours before meeting him and just waffle about guarantees to Russia. Now he pisses on Trump and Trump just meekly agrees to ask Ukraine to stop hitting Russian energy infrastructure and may be even stop decimating Putin's precious Black Sea fleet. The stupidity of this is staggering, as Putin would be doing what Trump could have demanded, if only Trump had the balls to demand anything.

Putin is wearing a suit so it's ok...

Do lines not get blurred though when POTUS seems to shaping up to do something crazy with the nukes?

if the US and Russia get around to play eachother in Ice hockey , it will be interesting how many of the team will throw a ‘sickie’ and what will the attitude of the US National Ice Hockey Federationor equivalent feel about it?

So you claim illegal acts with no evidence to back it up? Don't get me wrong, Trump isn't morally fit to hold office - but he has been elected. As Trump failed to do last time, if you claim that the election was rigged etc - provide the proof?

On top of that you then want the US military to engage in a coup against a rightfully elected US president?🤔

You're suggesting the assassination of a sitting president based on reasoning without concrete evidence. Easy to say when you wouldn't be the one facing the death penalty.

Didn't they shoot him?

Trump has ridden roughshod over "the legal mechanisms of the nation to remove or censure him". Legislators have already voted to confirm thoroughly unqualified candidates to cabinet positions out of fear for their personal safety. The legal avenues to remove the traitor-in-chief currently occupying the oval office are closed off.

The only options left are either
(a) illegal
(b) send thoughts and prayers to victims of this regime, hope you don't personally become a victim, prepare for an election in 2028 that may never happen while a Russian agent guts your country's institutions to the extent that even IF you get free and fair elections in the future and manage to oust them, rebuilding those institutions will be so expensive and take so long that it'll likely take more than a single term.

Apologies, I left out option C: follow orders under the pretext that they're "legal" and find yourself acting as part of an invasion force waging war on an actual democracy that once considered your country an ally, waiting until you're given an order that contravenes the Geneva Convention to protest? How does that end? With you being summarily shot for refusing orders? It's not like you'd get your day in court for your court martial: the Russian Asset in charge has already gutted JAG.

It is all becoming so predictable.

@Baba Yaga "what ever Putin has on donnie it must be huge"

The scary thing is, Putin is not even afraid of alienating him by laughing at him.

At this stage it’s clear Trump is taking his orders from Putin. Give me Ukraine and you can have their minerals-✔️, put Tulsi in charge of national security, we like her ✔️ Fill your cabinet with yes men and incompetents ✔️ Ruin your stock market and undermine your elections ✔️