• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Honestly they’re correct. Putin at least seems somewhat predictable and he’s definitely more intelligent.

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    Putin is finished, he is a walking dead together with the Russian Empire he wanted to create.
    But we need to support Ukraine more, so this stupid war isn’t prolonged more than necessary. When the war is over both Ukraine and EU will prosper.

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      10 days ago

      We need to help Ukraine win ASAP so that we can redirect our military resources to defending ourselves against the United States.

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        9 days ago

        Unnecessary distinction. Trump is choosing to do all of this. A lot of people probably have a lot of dirt on him, but he’s still making his own choices.

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          Given his current level of lucidity, I doubt he’s capable of independent thought as he still has some hangers-on and aides who appear incompetent but actually have plans of their own, pushing the bastard to approve of their ideas. That he is also but a product of a game long played by vested interests: Roger Stone, the anti-climate Mercers, the Christofascists behind Project 2025, the oligarchy in general, and of course the Chinese and Russians who’d found him the perfect agent of influence.

          He’s so fucking smug, so convinced to be winning but is truly isolating and destroying the US from the inside and indirectly benefiting the new hegemonies realigning the world order.

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        I think we’ve reached the point in geopolitics where there’s half-a-dozen hands pulling on any one person’s strings.

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    US invading Iran is similar to Putin invading Brazil btw distance-wise. Which one can you imagine ever happening?

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    9 days ago

    I used to joke about my children having to fight in the “Trump Wars” during his first term. Then he got reelected. It’s not funny anymore.

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    9 days ago

    Not just peace but business in general. The man is fucking famous for bankrupting everything he touches for crying out loud

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    So do we Americans.

    Let these escapades serve as an example that, outside of the Epstein Class, people’s only power here is local.

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      I think they all see it, but are scared to say it out loud in case he gets activated. Like when you see youre being watched late at night. You dont run and scream immediately you sort of walk a tiny bit faster trying not to let them know that you know because that’ll trigger the chase.

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    9 days ago

    Is Trump actually taller than Putin? I never cared about height but I know in political photo ops that’s a big deal.

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      9 days ago

      Putin is notoriously short and Trump is around 6" and he also wears lifts. Trump is huge compared to Putin.