Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Can he achieve much if he loses the mid terms? Is he pretty much a lame duck president then in terms of ability to really shape US foreign policy?

Will he go ahead of them? Would he declare a stste of war and move ahead without approval anyway?

I still can’t get over that Putin lies to Trump about Ukraine’s drone attack on his residence.

Trump announces it to the world like a fool who believes his master.

Then Trump states Putin was probably lying to me.

And that’s it??? We move on.

Imagine it was Zelensky who lied to him and made a show of him on the world stage.

Did it ever occur to him that maybe Putin has been lying about everything else all along??

What a dumb piece of **** he really is.

Did any of them hit something worthwhile? Didn't see anything on the news about Moscow suffering an attack

Yeah that's my expectation too unfortunately. Its incredible that the Democrats haven't taken advantage of his blatant pandering to the US's traditional enemy and his abandoning of the US position as self-appointed moral guardians of the globe. There are enough centrists and liberals in the US to whom these issues do still matter, regardless of their concerns over Jerbs and Immigintz. But I guess that reflects the big Achilles heal in US politics - when it comes down to it, outside of the MAGA movement, the Dems and GOP are all just millionaires, two sides of the same coin. The Dems don't really know how to change their playbook to appeal to the ordinary blue collar Americans. It's such a simply play, the one thing that Trump nailed. He bypassed all the traditional party-political "rules of engagement" and just baited the blue collar voters into backing him. Not dissimilar to Farage and BoJo in the UK, but Supersized.

The Dems, if they had their act together and messaging on-point, should be tearing lumps out of the Republicans in the mid terms. Maybe they do, and maybe they will - maybe we just don't get those news angles over here. But I just doesn't seem to be echoing across the Atlantic. All the stupid stunts he's pulled and he's still there. F**k me, the Yanks are either thick as s**t or their moral compass really has fallen that low.

They are bringing in far too much hardware for the boarding of a single tanker, and it sounds like the wrong equipment for that task too. Might just be transiting through to the Middle East.

Or kidnapping King Frederick of Denmark

They wouldn't have assembled the helicopters in Fairford if they were transiting.

edit: there is 2 Chinooks and 5x MH60's in Fairford, by the time you account for support kit and staff, that accounts for all of the C-17's which went into Fairford from the US (circa 10)

Thats a big move ..

Britain and France have formally agreed to put boots on the ground in Ukraine as part of a potential peace deal with RussiaThey will form part of a 'multinational force for Ukraine' that will 'operate on Ukranian soil' while 'securing Ukraine's skies and seas and building an armed forces fit for the future'

Totally agree with you about the Dems siding with the millionaires. However in almost all recent elections over the past 12 months the Dems of various hues have won, some massively. Hoping the Sanders, AOC, Mandami wing come good.

Is that not part of the point, keep presenting logical plans for peace and keep exposing Putin as the one refusing to engage?

The Dems may take the House but there is literally no possibility of them winning 60 Senate seats let alone 66. To get to a bare 51, they have to hold all they have and gain four of N Carolina, Maine, Texas, Florida, Alaska, Iowa and Ohio. After that you're looking at the likes of Nebraska and Montana.

No-one is going to intercept a "Russian" ship. Russia is going to keep the ship, though.

Ukraine has intercepted a few in a way.

Supposedly large troop numbers, but not much else. I hope Ukraine has prepared for this.

Something about "fooled again trump" being allowed to take Venezuela and Greenland in exchange for Ukraine decided in alaska by putin the later ensuring NATO breakup.

Apparently this was mooted to trump by putin in 2019 but stopped by his more competent advisers at that time.