<>Waves>> Hey there smartypants!
Trump Tower Moscow.
Seriously.
Also, he just likes dictators.
Trump respects power. Putin has power.
Thatās really all it is.
Plus it is yet another normalization of the use of coercion by great powersā¦something Trump would love to have normalized because he has nations heād love to coerce.
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Zelensky started this war in the same fashion as the kid who refused to give up his lunch money to the bully started the fight.
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āBaby girl why do you make me beat you like this?ā
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Denmark.
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Good to see you!
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last monday it hit $52, its recovered some, it wonāt last.
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said it before, Iāll say it again. When it comes to Russia, Trump is a ā ā ā ā ā ā ā moron
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Yes the site that I use is reliable and convenient, but it tracks the Futures price on major exchanges, not the spot or contract price.
"Futures contracts of 1,000 barrels are traded in the St. Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange (SPIMEX). . . . "
So Putin targeted and killed more civilians, the US prevents G7 from condemning the war crime, Trump blames Zelensky for starting the war, and Putin continues to refuse the cease fire.
Trumpās nailing this!
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He seems pretty bad at this whole ānegotiating a grand bargain for the war in Ukraine.ā
his grand bargain seems to have been to allow themselves to be looted by the US while surrendering to Russia.
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Yeah not the best results of negotiations I think. Pretty poor outcome.
For those of you who have been supportive of Trumps approach to negotiating an end to the Ukraine war, can you tell me what he has actually achieved so far apart from giving a pass to Russia at every turn and continuing to blame Zelensky, Biden and pretty much everyone else apart from Russia who were the actual instigators.
You were all crowing and agreeing with Trumps idiotic claim of he will stop the war on day 1 with one phone call. Then he said it will take 30 days and now we approach the 100 day mark.
I understand the need in negotiations for each side to make compromises but what has Russia been asked to compromise?
At what point will you start to question Trumps approach or does Trump get a pass even though he has said time and time again only HE can bring peace to the region.
Trumpās āGrand Bargainā sucks. Iām being reminded of all those terrible Civil War Union generals they went through for the first 3 years of the war. Just bad decisions all around.
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The US started the war. Ukrainians have been useful pawns in neocon plans to achieve domination over Russia and China. If you doubt that consider the strategy described in A. Wess Mitchell in August 2021:
The equivalent of Port Arthur or Afghanistan today is Ukraine. The United States should wish to see Russia suffer a military rebuff of sufficient magnitude to prompt its leaders to reassess their assumptions about the permissiveness of the post-Soviet space as a preferred zone of strategic expansion. America can help bring about this outcome much as it did in Afghanistan: by providing locals the means to better resist Russia at higher volumes than it has done to date and encouraging European allies to do the same. And we should significantly raise the costs for cyber and other attacks on the United States, including via reciprocal attacks on Russian critical infrastructure and by sanctioning Putinās inner circle and the secondary market for Russian bonds.
This pain, however, must have a goal beyond simply punishment; namely, to inflict a defeat for strategic effect, with the calculated aim of convincing Russia that its chosen path of westward expansion is closed. By contrast, U.S. policy toward Russia-in-Asia should be calibrated to encourage a redirection of Russiaās focus and energies in this direction. Such a policy would consist of economic, military, and political planks.
A Strategy for Avoiding Two-Front War - The National Interest
https://sonar21.com/russia-aint-a-chinese-sidecar/
https://youtu.be/U06jlgpMtQs?si=zzVdgydZRrJOH83j
No idea how to embed videos. But this is the Soviet national anthem. It gets me all giddy inside when I hear it and makes me want to hoist an AK high.
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I mean if you like them from a historical studies mindset like I do then thereās nothing wrong with it. Iām probably the biggest Napoleon fan in the world. And I have a weird obsession with Pol āthe lunaticā Pot.
But itās from a historical standpoint. I think Trump admires dictators. And thatās a problem.
