I mean, he's not WRONG
I mean, he's not WRONG
I trust Trump about as far as I can throw him, and at the end of the day it's really the Pentagon calling the shots here not the POTUS.
But dudes clearly speaking to a public sentiment here.
Biden and the Dems are so bloodthirsty that Trump is the nominal antiwar position. I hate this fucking place
Trump is the nominal antiwar position
Trump isn't anti-war, or at least I don't trust him to be actually anti-war. He's anti-this-war, but his administration did plenty of hawkish shit towards Iran and Venezuela. I'm not even confident he'll actually do anything to deescalate in Ukraine, I think it's all bluster.
same with Orban vs EU
The problem with Trump is not that he can't read the room. On the contrary, that's part of the problem. The room is filled with transphobic, military thumping, chauvinist, xenophobic, treat gobbling bullshit.
Gee, why doesn't he feel the same about Palestine?
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Trump knows how to read the room, and ending the war in Ukraine is a rewarding grift. Ending the genocide in Palestine is not nearly as rewarding
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That's quite an apt analogy for lobbying
Our big wet boy is a huge zionist
Love when every Republican president for the past fifty years is ideologically to biden's left
edit: they're right, Bush is the only exception (and still to Biden's left on border and immigration policy)
come on, don't forget the oil man
Senator Biden supported the Iraq attack 2003 and signed off on bunches of his legislation
I always wonder how instrumental W was to the invasion plan. Not to hand it to him at all, but he always seemed just not interested in being president let alone personally make the invasion a reality.
Yeah we really memory holed who may genuinely have been the most evil US president of all time, and that's a pretty fucking serious competition
I trust Trump about as far as I can throw him... But dudes clearly speaking to a public sentiment here.
Reiterating all this (that Trump doesn't really care, won't have total control of foreign policy, and this is mostly a play to popular sentiment), there's a lesson here in how to present ideas so that people agree with them.
Talking about a single issue and giving a humanist position on it will beat an ideological position that necessarily (because it's your whole ideology!) invokes other issues. Trump could have given an eloquent anti-imperialist take (lmao) and it would not have played as well. But "we need to stop all this killing?" Who's going to disagree with that? It reveals all the NATO freaks as the monsters they are for playing geopolitics with people's lives. Same as if you talk about healthcare in terms of "the richest country in the world shouldn't have people choosing between medicine and rent" instead of starting with the ideological basis for that belief.
Not to say you should never get into ideology, just that the humanist justification for positions should be at the forefront, because it keeps the discussion focused and is harder to oppose. It does help to think about how best to present these ideas; that's a lot of what politics is.
fair points, whats a realistic anti-imperialist take that trump could have do you think? after the debate i can only imagine him taking swipes at #46
There's a long-standing thread of American thought that would get you a long ways towards anti-imperialism: "we shouldn't send troops to die in a country most Americans can't find on a map." Could get a little farther with "we should not be paying for death and destruction across the globe."
Trump was already president and his foreign policy was pretty bad. He threw Rojavah to Turkey and was trying hard to start a war with Iran, assassinated Soleimani, and people just forgot about that when the pandemic started. He tried to coup Venezuela for
, remember that pathetic boat thing where they all got caught immediately? Remember the Bolivian coup that Amerikkka was almost certainly involved in?He threw Rojavah to Turkey
To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, to be her ally is fatal
And yet Biden is still worse
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idk that he gets credit for the attempted coup, but yeah he gets credit for backing guaido and giving him all of Venezuela's foreign assets we stole
Remember when the journalist was chainsawed to death and Trump disputed the CIA's findings that Kashoggi was assassinated by the orders of Mohammed bin Salman ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashoggi
That kind of piece ?
Tbf, that also was a case of karma. Kashoggi was a huge pro-US ghoul.
We need an emoji of this with Trump's hair photoshopped on with how often this happens.
A quick and dirty version
Biden and any other POTUS runs US Imperialism by the playbook. Trump will not change US Imperialism, but he does disrupt it and panics the deep state (Industrialists and the MIC), I don't think any other POTUS would've gone to the DPRK
The DPRK meeting is a perfect embodiment of the "upside" to Trump's foreign policy: noisy, not anything a regular president would do, and ultimately did not change the status quo even slightly.
And of course the downside is getting us closer to war with Iran (twice, I believe) than we've been in decades.
and ultimately did not change the status quo even slightly.
It did actually, or was on the course to. After this visit Kim announced they are toning down the military expenses to focus on civil development. But when Biden became president and OcK elected even more fascist govt than usual the provocations increased greatly and as an effect DPRK had to get way closer to Russia that anytime before, they even officially entered military defensive pact now.
Still paint me skeptical he would really do any meaningful damage.
Whatever I ain't voting for either of them.
American electoral-brained mouth breathers are no different than monkeys
monkeys
Let's avoid the racially charged insults
You’re projecting what you want to be true. Monkeys behave by instinctively reacting to the leader lmfao this is actually a great example of the reasons why leftists continually have infighting and fail, you hyper focus on a minute aspect of something completely unrelated to the point
And the people who instinctively upvote this virtue signaling bullshit? Lmfao no different
Translation: Stop resisting or we will keep killing you.
A threat.
Read between the lines based on his past behavior. "Getting it settled" means "Just give everything to Putin". It's like solving the gay marriage debate by just taking away gay marriage.
Any settlement Russia will take is one that will be favorable to Russia, because Russia is winning. They've been winning for a while and there's no likely way that will change. Ukraine will lose some now or lose more later.
Insisting on even a neutral settlement (much less one that will punish Russia, which is Zelensky's stance) is not a serious negotiating position. It'd be like Germany in 1917 insisting on a favorable outcome; if you lose a war you don't get to win the peace.
The Western/UA policy always read to me like the highly evolved philosophical and political understanding you'd see in a second-grade classroom.
It doesn't matter how impractical it might be, or how much long term resentment it stokes: we have to punish
TimmyPutin forstealing Steven's toy truckreclaiming the Donbass and Crimea becausebullyingterritorial realignment is Inherently Wrong.I suspect any non-military attempt to move the line would have been equally rebuffed; any vote to secede would be "rigged", any buyout offer rejected.
The West seems to be profoundly terrified of moving lines on the map in the modern era. Look how long it took to deliver South Sudan, and how Somaliland struggles for legitimacy. Their ability to arbitrate the borders is a symbol of their dominance; once they no longer call the shots, everything is on the table, like fixing an Africa and Middle East full of arbitrary caprice, or finally telling the pipsqueaks in Taipei to stuff it.
Give everything? What do yo mean by this? Do you believe Putin wants all of Ukraine?
Putin is a Nazi memorial collector and he knows he can easily get the most impressive collection of statues of SS war criminals if he just takes all of Ukraine's land.
i post you some pictures to be first confused about .
Then i will ask you if you Recognice the USA as independent or as a Subjekt of the Crown of Britian ?
What kind of peace deal would you not count as “just give everything to Putin”?
What kind of peace deal do you think should happen?
What kind of peace deal do you think is realistically possible at this point?
He ain't talking about stopping the death of Ukrainians. He is talking about Russians and stopping the war by cucking to Putin and doing everything to stop any and all foreign aid to Ukraine so his butt humper can have it. Fuck Trump. He is a piece of dog shit that another dog ate, puked up and then ate again.
"Putin is gay and woke up one day and decided he would conquer Ukraine. There's really nothing else to know about this situation."his butt humper
Can liberals ever bash Putin without resorting to homophobia? Regardless, Trump wouldn't have control over that policy anyway, it's a Pentagon/security state adventure, which is ending in a complete disaster for them even without a president hostile to Project Ukraine.
it’s a Pentagon/security state adventure
Worth noting that the current war has its roots in the 2014 coup in Ukraine, which enjoyed bipartisan support (with John McCain notably traveling to the country). This project then survived the Trump presidency only to mature under Biden.
Casual homophobia, classic lib. Can't express your point without making it about sexual pathology or slagging off the gays, right? Have you ever had a thought about politics or power and not somehow forced an analogy with a penis involved? Freud was right you twisted little pervert.
Anyway, go figure Russians are people too so stopping their deaths is a good thing too if you, you know, give a shit about people. And even if we took your point at face value, an end to the war on Russia's terms - which is all but certain anyway given the trajectory here - will still result in the end of maiming and murder of Ukrainian men on the Frontline and any civilian deaths from infrastructure bombing deeper into the country. The only reason that corrupt little rump state is still feeding bodies into the grinder is because Europe and America would rather sacrifice Ukraine than fight directly (CAN'T fight directly based on industrial output) and are happy to see others die on their behalf. Otherwise peace could have come long ago. But you bloodthirsty dogs believe whatever you're told and clap along to the slaughter as your social benefits are converted into weapons and shipped across the Atlantic so they can be blown up in some trench in Eastern Ukraine all so that some military contractor can redo their kitchen in Boston. You want to talk about cucked? Look in the fucking mirror you sniveling worm.
cucking to Putin
Imagine you're some Ukranian conscript who spends their days watching buddies get blown up. I bet your top, #1 priority is whatever interpersonal relationship Trump and Putin have.
You're clearly new here.
was a fucking monster, probably worse than Trump and Biden.