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Does VP Musk knows about it and that it will upset Putin?
I have my doubts about this.
We all do, and even if it's true, expect a caveat
Ah yes. The caveat.
"I will continue support........for a price! MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!"
Should we be worried that it's entirely plausible to give our next/previous president an evil laugh, and it reasonably fits him?
We should give him an evil whine, Or a Muttley wheezing laugh?
I mean the price part is already built in. A lot of the "aid" Ukraine is getting is lend lease style stuff that they'll be paying through the nose for later IIRC.
Yea but he's not pocketing any of THAT cash
"we need you to do us a favour though"
I mean, you literally just described the exact scenario that led to his first impeachment.
Are you kidding .... who the hell can take his word about anything.
We're better off to turn off these dumb announcements and pay no attention to anything he says because either it doesn't make sense, its stupid, its a lie or he doesn't mean what he says
Keep watching the news to listen to what everyone else is saying but when it comes to US government, don't bother taking it to mean anything.
Yeah, just pay attention to what he does. What he says is close to useless.
I'm sorry. I didn't vote for this.
So that definitely means his administration will not continue military support, because that man is the biggest liar in history.
Won't that upset his base? You know, the ones that said DT is a peaceful dove while the blood thirsty democrats want to sacrifice all of Ukraine for profit. Or will that claim go away like the rampant fraud claims?
Donald Trump's base supports him because he's Donald Trump. Any individual decision or issue is inconsequential and probably not even noticeable, as long as he stays roughly the same person.
I guess what I'm saying is, don't attribute a fixed self-consistent platform to those guys.
I wish you were wrong
Somehow I don't believe him. Probably due to his track record of doing the right thing along with standing up to Russian aggression and interference.
This is his way to tell Putin he wants more money and anther wife
One of the few guys who lies more than a politician.
At least we can point to these conversations when he inevitably changes his mind when putin drops a giant pile of Rubles on his desk or threatens him with blackmail.
(X) Doubt
Yeah, we'll believe it when we see it with Trump, but this is promising.
This would hurt the feelings of his butt buddy, Putin. Highly doubtful.
Next Year:
Support for what?
Didn't he say he'll end the war within 24 hours?
My guess is that some advisor told him to say this. If you are very publicly not in favor of continuing support for Ukraine, that really reduces your ability to negotiate a good deal. There has to be the threat of continued or increased support if the Russians don't agree to terms. Whether this is believable is another question.
Hmmm, Trump saying some sane stuff? Elmo is saying he supports AfD? Sounds they are already starting the "passing of the republican torch" process.
I find this difficult to believe. I am assuming he was either lying or this was an off the cuff statement that wasn't serious.
Trump is EXTREMELY lazy when it comes to doing stuff he says he will do so he will be playing golf for 4 years while doing almost nothing otherwise. If someone complements him and puts a document in front of him to sign he might.
That's the worry, that some of these fascist scum surrounding him are competent enough to destroy America.
We all know he's too much of a loser piece of trash to do it himself.
He also says he now expects Europe to spend 5% of its GDP on defense. So, yeah, we will see.
Good news for the "won't be any wars under Trump" folks
Gonna be the same trickle biden did... Clearly US has no interest in Ukraine winning the war. The goal is to weaken Russia.
Your concept of a "trickle" is interesting. The US has contributed nearly as much to Ukraine as every other country combined. (As of September, that was about $92 billion from the US versus about $112 billion from all other countries).
Yes, it does add up to a lot, but it always came in just enough to keep Russia at bay. Also the permissions around where and how which weapons could be used.
When Russia invaded, Putin had no idea how corrupt, weak and inefficient his forces were.
This trickle allowed Russia enough time to turn around much of that, getting us to the point where they are now severely threatening Ukraine.
If the military aid was more decisive, Russia could have been defeated early on, and the total spend could have been less than where it is now.
As I mentioned to the other commenter, all countries proceeded with discretion. We also didn't realize how bad of shape Russia's infrastructure was in, so that demanded a slow approach to try and prevent a nuclear retaliation. Now we know that's not going to happen, thus lifting the restrictions on attacking within Russian territory.
It's funny how the opinion on the US's role in this war over the last two years has gone from "WTF are we doing risking a nuclear war with Russia" to today where folks seem to be saying "why didn't we stomp Russia from the very beginning?". The answer in both cases was obvious, I don't know why anyone has forgotten the reason for that initial caution.
I do understand those arguments, and the US has been a true ally to Ukraine - much more than the Europeans who generally didn't spend as much as they should have, and sometimes added additional layers of caution (Olaf Scholz in particular).
But if you take a "don't criticize us" attitude, you won't be open to any lessons that might be learned. The lesson I hope the West, Europe in particular, would learn is that timidity and weakness invites aggression from someone like Putin.
I dunno, I feel like there's a distinction between being timid and being cautious. Yeah we all wish things could have ramped up much faster and knocked Putin back to his bunker like a coward, but if we had misjudged his readiness then there might not be a Ukraine left today. We know better now, and I think Russia's disastrous ICBM testing gave everyone a good idea of what to expect. And the fact that they're not turning to North Korea of all places for support? Yeah it's not looking good for Russia's military.
Don’t forget that not all aid and support is publicly shared , especially from countries that are within firing range of Putin. It’s actually amazing what we do hear.
I know Poland in particular has covertly (and often just quietly) gifted Ukraine quite a number of things. Including tanks and aircraft before anyone else had. It was real confusing for me when Germany was holding off on providing tanks because they didn't want to be the leader/first, meanwhile Poland had been providing tanks to Ukraine for awhile already.
Most of that money was wasted on domestic corruption.
Essentially Us cleared its stock piles of what they had and dod was severally overcharged on these purchases because stock pile was no in demand.
So Ukraine was getting 1 item for price of 3.
Deliveries were delayed, stuff that was needed was not provided.
Also arbitrary restrictions lifted two years too late.
You do realize no country is going to give up their best military secrets? And the pricing is likely true of every contributing country.
The restrictions were in no way arbitrary. This whole thing has been a game of chicken with Putin. Would you rather that other countries immediately escalated to scare Putin into launching his nukes? Frankly I'm happy it hasn't come to that, and with multiple countries now giving the go-ahead to launch attacks inside of Russian territory, maybe the Russian people will start questioning the motivations behind this war that Putin started.
You do realize no country is going to give up their best military secrets?
WTF are you talking about? Ukraine needed artillery shells and missles. Planes. None of this shit is "secret"
The restrictions were in no way arbitrary
Biden doing it now clearly shows that they were.
You are not providing a rebuttal to my thesis here but merely execusing poor performance with corruption is normal and Putin got nukes lol
Aka US didn't care for Ukraine to win, the goal is to weakem Russia so US provided just enough aid to Ukraine to do this while Ukraine lost initiative so it is now forced to negotiate on US terms.
None of this is to excuse EU behavior as it is their war and we keep 40k troops in Germany alone to defend it against Russia lol
Yes, and they were given artillery shells. They were also initially given short-range missiles to limit the range of attacks so Russia couldn't claim we were arming Ukraine for an all-out attack on Russia. And then as more information came in about the state of Russia's military, better missiles were supplied.
The whole point of this was to prevent provoking Russia into a full nuclear launch. It's only been two years, did you seriously forget the concerns with the US getting involved at all? Russia claimed to have the largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world, and there wasn't much solid information to contradict that claim. It sounds to me like you think everyone should have risked a global nuclear meltdown against a small man who acted like he was the toughest kid on the block, rather than playing it safe in case he really did have all those nukes ready to launch. Sure, NOW we know better, but in February of 2022 there was still a reason to believe he had the capacity, and we certainly know Putin is mad enough to have pulled the trigger.
You keep repeating these talking points like a broken record.
Biden admin policy was either a failure or intentionally idiotic.
Sullivan fuckef up. Cope.
Talking points... Sure. As if I'm some kind of mouth piece for the current administration. God forbid somebody should have individual common sense opinions about the things that are happening in the world. Maybe come back when you've grown up enough to actually understand the diplomatic necessity of what I'm talking about, because it seems like your whole viewpoint is "throw caution to the wind and burn down the world".
itll be traditional republican support. thoughts and prayers
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