• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    It would just be absolutely hilarious, in the darkest way if Trump turned out to be the most progressive leader we’ve had since FDR. Like the universe is giving Monty Python energy.

  • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Advisers to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump are developing a comprehensive sanctions strategy aimed at facilitating a diplomatic resolution to the Russia-Ukraine war, Bloomberg reported on Jan. 16, citing anonymous sources familiar with the discussions.

    Alternative headline, “People in Trump’s administration who are slightly less beholden to Russia than he is float trial balloon that Donald will slap down with a tweet when he cares enough to even say anything about it”

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    6 months ago

    Trump said he’d end the war in a day. If it’s not over by Tuesday, I may start thinking he wasn’t being honest.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    Between Israel and Ukraine, there are a lot of leftists out there who were just plain wrong in their assumption that Trump’s election would make matters worse for both.

    We’ll see if these changes hold, but from where we’re all sitting, there’s been more progress on international initiatives in two days in the in the last four years.

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      6 months ago

      I mean, we do have a previous example of a Donald Trump presidency. So it’s not that unreasonable to anticipate that he will sow chaos on the international scene, given that that’s exactly what happened last time. Unlike pretty much every ‘new’ president (i.e. not an incumbent returning to office immediately after a 4 year term), he’s a known quantity.

      Edited for clarity.

    • lewdian69@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Wat? Nothing has actually happened. There have been headlines about a cease fire, that have already been contradicted by Netanyahu himself, and this is just talk with no substance currently. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        Better than listening to what we’ve heard for the past 15 months: pretend remorse while the US government keeps handing over WMD’s to a genocide.