Comments by "" (@badluck5647) on "Times Radio" channel.

  1. Russia State Media: "No one died in the strike. They are just missing. Also, everything is going to plan, and we didn't even like that building."
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  2. If Ukraine is willing to sacrifice their lives for the fight for Western values, then we can at least sacrifice a few dollars, pounds, or euros.
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  3. “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” - Edmund Burke
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  4. The proud boys are literally Trump's brownshirts
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  5. If Trump is expected to be the voice of reason, then we are all in trouble.
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  6. "All men are created equal" Trump: "Except me. I am like Jesus."
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  7.  @Isclachau  Based on your non-response, response, there isn't any evidence. Standard MAGA.
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  8. Once Russia targeted civilians with missiles fired from these airbases, Russia escalated the war. It is a proportional response to fire back on these bases.
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  9. Trump, "in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote." Basically, saying the quiet part out loud.
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  10.  @Isclachau  Evidence?
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  11. Scaramucci was from an era where Trump recruited qualified cabinet members. He eventually chased them off for the crazy loyalists.
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  12. War of Russian Aggression
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  13. Musk doesn't have the emotional intelligence to manipulate Trump
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  14. Moscow Marge should be sent to live in Siberia
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  15.  @denisestarr2314  The founding fathers never foresaw that the public would elect a felon or tyrant when writing the Constitution.
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  16. The apathy towards Russian deaths is fair, considering how they could care less about what Russian missles do to civilians in Syria and Ukraine.
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  17. Few saw the irony of posting on TikTok about their concerns about the Chinese spying on us from a balloon.
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  18. Trump learn?
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  19. What can the attorneys do if Trump ignores their advice and forces then into a losing strategy?
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  20. I don't recognize the Republican party I grew up with. We have abandoned principles like Democracy, free trade, rule of law, fiscal responsibility, and American leadership in the world, in exchange for conspiracies and a personality cult around a reality TV star.
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  21.  @FlorianaLions  Russian state TV celebrates attacking apartments, power stations, and grain silos.
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  22.  @magnitskyact8154  It is in America's economic and national security to make an example of Russia, so autocrats such as China and Iran see the consequences of invading a sovereign democracy.
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  23. Trump doesn't feel empathy, so what would the point be?
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  24. Or they take the fall for him and end up in jail.
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  25.  @livingtribunal4110  Russia objectives are the ones that keep changing. Russian wanted to overthrow the government. They got chased out out of Keiv and then said that wasn't their objective. Russia said they wanted to take Odessa and cut Ukraine from the Black Sea. They got chased out of Kherson, and now they say that wasn't their objective. When the Russian retreat from Crimea, they will claim they never wanted it anyway.
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  26. German Priorities in order: * Putin's feelings * Cheap Energy *Free Democratic Europe
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  27. JD Vance is just happy to be relevant. Trump/Musk has sidelined him.
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  28. Felon President on Truth Social, "termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution."
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  29. Ukraine was Russia's colony and not an equal partner in the Soviet Union. You would think that would bring more sympathy from Africa.
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  30. ​ @dertery8724  Very little opportunity as the resulting mud and debris would make moving through vehicles extremely difficult after crossing the river. Crossing the river was already a big hurdle.
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  31.  Giga Veliki  You probably also think a hundred F16s were shot down, and Zelenskyy started WW2.
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  32. Ukraine is one of the largest food exporters in the world. Plus, NK defectors can go to SK.
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  33.  @biggusdickus5986  Maybe you wouldn't hear it as much if it wasn't for all the cowardice.
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  34. We are 1075 days into Putin's 3-day special military operation. We are also in 250 hours into Trump's "day one" peace deal.
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  35.  @PrimeNPC  Don't waste my time with your illiteracy
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  36. @Thekoryosmenstribepodcast  I'm a registered Republican who has voted for McCain and Romeny. Meanwhile, Trump says ‘stand back and stand by’ on the group responsible for racial violence in Springfield and attacks on the capital itself. For me, racism and poltical violence are deal breakers.
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  37. Rubles aren't worth much anymore, so they got to put more hours in.
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  38.  @nuba16can  You probably want Mike Linddelm as Secretary of Defense.
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  39. ​​@@WilliamStewart-dc4xhVulnerable to who? Switzerland, Austria, or Ireland? The only threat to Europe is Russia who has squandered all their legacy Soviet equipment by losing them in battle to Ukrainians armed with mostly old NATO surplus.
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  40. Admirals*
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  41. If South Korea and Japan form a military alliance, then that would be a game changer.
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  42. The missles will never run out as their industry is slowly building new ones, but the frequency will decrease as Russia stockpiles are burned through faster than they can be replaced
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  43. ​ @isay207  Nah. The budget isn't unlimited, so it would be better to spend it on long-range rockets, more tanks, and way more ammunition.
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  44. People saw her next to Trump, and mistakenly thought she looked smart by comparison.
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  45. Zeihen seems like a fake expert like Bill Nye, Dr. Oz, and Neil Tyson. Having superficial knowledge about things outside your expertise doesn't make you an expert on everything.
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  46. I hope someday to see a CCP version of House of Cards.
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  47. ​​ @timlinator I am a registered Republican and I'm disgusted with Trump and MAGA. We went from the party of Lincoln and Reagan to the party of conspiracies and authoritarianism.
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  48.  @dertery8724  yes
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  49. Why is the US still doing all the work on behalf of the freeloaders in Europe? At least, the UK and Poland are doing their fair share.
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  50. ​ @multipl3 To be fair, the Chinese part is warmer. It's like Canada where the more north you go, the more barren it becomes.
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  51. TikTok 👀
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  52.  @TheLastCrumb.  Musk may be intelligent and creative, but that doesn't result in emotional intelligence. He seems to have difficulty controlling his own emotions and responding appropriately to others' emotions.
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  53. @TheLastCrumb.  Understanding your own emotions, controlling your own emotions, understanding other people's emotions, and responding appropriately to other people's emotions. For example, people who can't tell when they are offending someone are emotionally unintelligent. People who can't recognize when they are being rude or passive-aggressive when they are upset are emotionally unintelligent. People who cry in public or have angry outbursts are typically emotionally intelligent. Based on people who work with Musk, he doesn't know how to read a room. He also has a fragile ego and tends to overreact.
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  54. Mongolia isn't known for the rule of law. It can't be easy being landlocked between the world's two leading autocracies.
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  55. ​ @bluemarlin8138 A lot of people forget that in 2003, Iraq had the fourth biggest army in the world and their soldiers were battle hardened from the war with Iran.
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  56. Criminals with military experience and PTSD. What could go wrong?
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  57.  @arofhoof  Trump called Putin a "genius" and "savvy" for invading Ukraine in two separate interviews.
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  58. Trump, how does this benefit me?
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  59. ​ @set3777 Ever Attorney General, every Secretary of Defense, every Chief of Staff, etc. I think there is a Secretary of Energy who is still in the Cult of Personality.
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  60. It is worse for their Navy. Every time Russia stops Ukrainian missles and drones, a Russian sailor takes a smoke break next to the ship's ordinances.
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  61. Because it is all scripted.
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  62.  @Daniel4646  "Stable genius"
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  63. A sign of Russian engineering when their ice breakers can only operate in the Caribbean.
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  64. Based on Russia's view in Syria, the UN recognized government is allowed to invite troops from other countries, but everyone else is there illegally.
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  65.  @robertatkins9419  He was literally fined for being in contempt of the judges orders. Judge gave him a gag order and he continuously violated it.
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  66.  mcdazz2011  It still means you have generals and officers who are experienced in waging war. 15 yeare is also enough time to fix structural issues from lessons learned from the last war. Also, fighting Kurdish insurgents never stopped
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  67.  @richardgallagher4880  Mongolia used to own Russia. Does that mean Russia doesn't deserve its own sovereignty, culture, or language?
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  68.  @richardgallagher4880  Stop bugging me with your illiteracy
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  69. They are taking a holiday to celebrate their victory in making Trump president.
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  70. We are 1075 days into Putin's 3-day special military operation. We are also in 250 hours into Trump's 24-hour peace deal.
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  71. It helps that Russia has to divert troops to Belgarod to fight other Russians.
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  72.  @izuchukwu1628  Almost as crazy as people voting for a known insurrectionist.
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  73. What is the big deal? It is only a special military opposition on Russian soil.
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  74. Russia actually had good economists. Considering all the pressures that the Russian economy is facing, the fact that the central bank has prevented an economic collapse is amazing. Of course, long-term prospects for Russia's economic future is dismal.
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  75. ​ @dpelpal Russian stealth fighters are so stealthy that no one has ever seen them in the air.
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  76. ​ @davetdowell How many rubles do you get paid per comment?
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  77. MAGA getting triggered by this thumbnail 👍
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  78. Most fighting aged men in the Donetsk region are dead or injured anyway. Early in the war, Putin had them mobilized and sent to the front line without body armor or modern firearms.
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  79. Imagine how Trump feels. Do the love letters between Trump and Kim mean nothing to the NK dictator?
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  80. You don't send billions of dollars on equipment and not send someone to make sure it doesn't go to waste.
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  81. Not all Asians are Chinese.
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  82. ​ @Clarence_Top_G  Trump - Putin 2024 Make Autocrats Great Again MAGA
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  83.  @briandoherty2728  Whatever you say, comrade
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  84. Russia can always find a use for canon fodder.
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  85.  @robertatkins9419  Your desperation is embarrassing if you are trying to argue that your lies being debunked somehow gives you more credibility.
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  86. Trump thinks genius starts with a J. I would take his opinion with a grain of salt.
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  87.  @alqaas1948  Using previous budget surpluses to buy a bunch of military assets to be destroyed in Ukraine looks good in GDP terms, but it is not good for long-term growth. Nationalizing (stealing) foreign assets is a good way to get cash quickly, but it guarantees that Russia will never be a place of investment again. Driving up wages by causing workers to flee abroad or having young men lose their lives in Ukraine seems nice for now, but it makes the Russian industry uncompetitive if it ever wants to switch from war production to an export economy in the future.
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  88.  @Philhou77005  Who was he lying on behalf of? 🤔
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  89. Or the FBI. I'm not sure why you think morality needs to be tossed aside to confront evil.
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  90. Serbia 👀
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  91. Grenada 👀 Panama 👀 Iraq 👀
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  92.  @lauchlanguddy1004  "Shafted" seems unfair as NATO nations have give aid 50 times over Ukraine's military budget. However, it is a fair point to say the delays and indecisiveness did allow a Russian buildup.
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  93. Not really. Most of these minority regions are 40-60% ethnic Russian by design.
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  94. Wagner 👀
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  95. Who is going to buy China's exports?
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  96.  @noktumwhatever753  You think stealing classified documents, obstruction of justice, and defrauding the government should be legal for the political class? Holding individuals above the rule of law is a textbook feature of authoritarianism.
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  97. ​​ AGoodGuy76  The Make Autocrats Great Again movement
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  98. Watch MAGAts gaslight themselves into believing that Trump didn't promise to end the war in a day.
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  99. ​​ @greatbriton8425  Pre-2021 invasion, Russia and their proxies were firing artillery at the Ukrainian army in the Donbas, so the Ukrainian army fired back. During these exchanges, Ukrainian civilians in the Donbas became civilian causalities. According to data from Luhansk People's Republic, it averaged about 1 civilian per month that were killed in artillery strikes. Now compare this to thousands of civilians killed by Russian artillery strikes in Mariupol.
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  100. Brexit, the gift that keeps giving 🙄
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  101. The majority of men who identify as evangelical don't regularly attend Church. They see Trump as their messiah instead of Jesus.
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  102. Abrams probably not worth the headache when it comes to logistics and maintenance. Leopards sourced from multiple countries is probably a lot more viable.
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  103. The French and Russians had the right idea about getting rid of the royal family.
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  104. Trump is trying to turn America into a Russian/Hungarian style autocracy. He is already handing over the government to his favorite oligarchs. Make Autocrats Great Again
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  105. The UK doesn't have any of those
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  106.  @sugoidessho  Obviously, but if the US wants other countries to contribute more of their fair share, then it would be more effective to have the message come from within the EU instead of from the US or UK.
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  107. Only when it was no longer profitable to be his fixer
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  108. Too bad his follow-up made him seem like an invalid.
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  109. Germany will probably just send more overpriced helmets and then pat themselves on the back.
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  110. Just buy weapons like Poland 🇵🇱
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  111.  @Withnail1969  The abundance of evidence all over Russian Telegram blogs says otherwise.
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  112. They aren't mutually exclusive. Democracies don't go to war with each other, and the rule of law benefits trade between nations.
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  113. Strange how the Russian military disputes this and basically called Wagner's head a liar.
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  114. The only way giving up Crimea would secure Ukraine's future would be if it was done in exchange for a Russian endorsement of Ukraine and Moldova joining NATO.
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  115. To be fair, except for a few exceptions, most of the NATO equipment that was originally supposed to be sent to Ukraine wasn't maintained. America sent equipment over the ocean faster than some NATO countries could get their equipment operational.
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  116. US General Milley said Ukraine would fall in 72 hours. Captured Russian documents claimed it would take 10 days.
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  117.  @dpelpal  Mandela Effect Lukashenko and Western leaders said 3 days, and everyone attributes it to Putin.
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  118.  @dpelpal  It's the internet. If it was real, then it would be on the internet forever.
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  119. You need something fast and armored to push through fortified positions.
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  120. They follow Ben
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  121. Trump / Putin 2024 🇷🇺🇨🇳 Make Russia Great Again
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  122. Putin, Xi, and Orban would disagree
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  123. @isabelleboisvert9667  Bezos has money, but that didn't stop Trump from picking a one-sided fight against him
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  124.  @JamesMunge  The agreement pushed on Ukraine at gunpoint and then Russia ignored? Unless you are going to lie about Russia withdrawing their troops/mercenaries and lies about Russia handling back Ukraine control of their border.
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  125.  @markfp9705  What are you talking about? Even Russian state media reported on the Donetsk and Luhansk mobilization that started right before the invasion.
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  126.  @user-yk1vz7of1t  I can think of 787 million reasons to not trust Fox News
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  127. According to NY state law.
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  128. They should have bought insurance
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  129.  @rickm6076  Out of network just means you go to a different state or hospital. American insurance coverage is wider than Europeans governments, which choose not to pay for rare conditions.
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  130. Sentencing is in July
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  131. While suspicious, I also wouldn't discount Russian incompetence and corruption. We have seen over and over how Russians are unable to perform basic tasks in Ukraine, so I would be unsurprised if this is the case far from the frontline, too.
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  132. As long as millions of Americans have TikTok downloaded on their phones, I'm not going to concern myself with spy balloons.
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  133.  @WhiteDragon689  Doubtful. Russia and Belarus are so economically linked that the relationship between the two will continue regardless of who is in charge of Belarus or Russia.
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  134.  @Steven-ir5yw  Too bad Trump said it is constitutional for Vice President Harris to throw out the results she doesn't like.
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  135.  @SuperNova-py1ec  They first claimed only one man died, but they changed the reported "facts" to one man missing.
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  136. Every couple years, the pundits say "this protest is different", but nothing in Iran changes.
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  137.  @LA-kc7ev  Donald Trump “You know, you could see there was blood coming out of her [Megyn Kelly's] eyes, blood coming out of her wherever. In my opinion, she was off base.”
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  138. The Putin Youth
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  139. ​ @Szminsky Not all which is usable. Sometimes, it is cheaper to store it than decommission it.
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  140. Based on training time, high maintenence, incredible high costs, and Russian anti-air capabilities, it probably isn't worth letting the Russian get a hold of our fighter jet technology. Stock of old MIGs should have been sent to Ukraine already. Advance drones and long range rockets would be the next step.
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  141. To be fair, they did capture Kherson in a few days due to a Ukrainian traitor.
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  142. ​ @Treps1 When Trump's acolytes in America stopped the shipments of artillery shells, Ukrainian drones picked up the slack.
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  143. MAGA is the treason wing of the Republican party.
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  144.  @lilymay7171  Tucker Carlson would only show the first half of Titanic and claim the ship never sank
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  145. They need the US's cluster ammunition.
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  146.  @Withnail1969  Tanks left behind by Russia, and those supplied from the Free World aren't mutually exclusive. Russian left behind more tanks in Kiev and Kharkiv than even NATO promised Ukraine. Russia is still Ukraine's biggest supplier of tanks.
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  147.  @solconcordia4315  Yet Russia would have won if not for NATO support.
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  148. Invasion? This is just a Ukrainian special military operation.
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  149. It has been more than 8 weeks, so the UK is due for another PM.
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  150. Europe basically disarmed themselves after the Cold War. Russian aggression against the "NATO threat" was a self-fulfilling prophecy by encouraging Europe to rearm.
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  151. ​​ @awlhunt 👈 Someone didn't watch the video. The battlefield was hardly mentioned. The topic was Russian politics.
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  152. It has been more than 8 weeks, so the UK is due for another PM.
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  153. Trump - Putin 2024 🇷🇺🇨🇳 Make Autocrats Great Again MAGA
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  154. Trump is a RINO.
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  155. What Germany going to do? Not sell more German tanks? That ship has sailed as no one is going to want buy from the German arms industry after showing themselves to be a unreliable partner.
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  156. Even conscripts can use a shovel
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  157.  @tony_1980  To be fair, it wouldn't be the first time a woman got a position that they were deeply unqualified for because a liberal party wanted to appoint a woman to up the party's progressive credentials. With that out of way, it is also sexist to just assume every woman is unqualified without looking at her resume and what the job entails. The two female prime ministers seem very qualified based on the little information I have.
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  158. If she committed a crime, then prosecute her instead of taking away her rights without due process.
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  159. Poland isn't diplomatic enough for the position.
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  160. It is interesting how much Duterte hated the US, but struggled to do much due to pro-US views among the general public.
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  161.  @Williestyle-RobotechxMacross-x  War games showed that China may commit pre-emptive strikes on American air bases to knock them out of the war before the Chinese invade Taiwan. Several bases across the region will make this possibility more difficult to achieve.
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  162. The point is that it is a matter of time. With the new aid bills and Ukraine's mobilization, it is only a matter of time when balance makes Russia's campaign unsustainable. Putin can still hope that Trump will break the law to reward Putin for his election interference.
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  163. Fox News: Why should we care what an entertainer like Swift has to say about politics? Also Fox News: Look at all these elderly rappers who are endorsing Trump.
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  164. I doubt Swift can change many political beliefs, but she can definitely mobilize many young women who may have sat out the election to go out and vote. You only need a few thousand more votes to win some of these swing states.
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  165. Not a very useful jammer if it could be shot down so easily.
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  166. Impending fighter jets could force Russia to negotiate as it makes their imperialist cause look more hopeless.
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  167.  @danielr.8345  The troll farm is paying you too much if that is all you got
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  168. According to Russians- Acceptable targets: *Ukraine children *Ukraine civilians *Ukraine infrastructure Unacceptable targets: *Invading Russian soldiers
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  169.  @macmcleod1188  BS. Russian soldiers fled Kherson without even putting up a fight. Now, they launch artillery on the civilian population from the other side of the river.
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  170.  @macmcleod1188  Interesting enough, conscripts pleading for Putin to do something about them being assigned to DPR and LPR commands who treat these Russian conscripts like canon fodder.
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  171.  @renemorales8059  Whataboutism
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  172. If Russia could dominate the airspace, then they would have done so at the start of the invasion.
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  173. How many Ukraine mechanic have experience working on a diesel engine vs a jet engine? There are a lot of reasons for not seeding Abrams. Otherwise, America would have sent them.
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  174. Bolton didn't want to waste time on an impeachment with a predetermined outcome of failure.
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  175. Unfortunately, he has yet to convicted of a crime.
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  176. I do enjoy the idea of a women emasculating Putin by laughing off his petty threats.
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  177. The position is more diplomatic than anything else.
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  178.  @frenchimp  The Baltic states weren't sanctioned by the EU to the point where there was very little trade between the bloc and countries. Belarus only has Russia.
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  179.  @eyaklen4804  Your lack of humanity towards civilian deaths is just proving the point.
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  180. Washington and Reagan* What Kennedy done?
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  181. ​​ @Kodakcompactdisc  The current Mexican president is an admirer of Hugo Chavez, so he obviously isn't that bright. In addition, his idea for ending the Mexican drug war was to just stop arresting leaders of drug cartels and then hope the issue would resolve itself.
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  182. I doubt Swift can change many political beliefs, but she can definitely mobilize many young women who may have sat out the election to go out and vote. You only need a few thousand more votes to win some of these swing states.
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  183.  @utrian4148  Tucker took your suggestion to heart, but he has learned nothing about democracy.
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  184. So even Russia has a equivalent of Qaron groups.
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  185. He is said Ukraine could take back their territory if Ukraine got everything they asked for. They got a third of what they asked for and it showed up late.
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  186.  @LordOfLight  There is merit in the idea that everyone has the right to a legal defensive. However, this is a case where lawyers are taking money from a war criminal to intimidate a journalist. One needs to get their head checked if they can't see the difference.
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  187. How can the General acknowledge Trump tried to overturn an election and then claim it is unreasonable to say Trump is a threat to democracy?
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  188. ​ @stephenlyon1358 What are you talking about? Ukrainians have been doing precision strikes across Crimea for over a year now. The only difference with Russian territory is politics.
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  189. I hate Biden, but I can't support Trump's goal of dismantling our democratic institutions and the rule of law.
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  190. Ukraine already had drones that reach Criminalist
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  191. Syria is on the verge of another rebellion from within their territory. This time, Hezbollah/Iran is too distracted by Gaza and Russia is too distracted by Ukraine.
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  192. Russia has already moved 75% of the traffic of military equipment to Crimea to ferries because they realize how vulnerable the bridge is. Also, the as frontlines move towards the Donbas, Crimea as a supply line is less important.
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  193. That is because NATO isn't an offensive group. It is a defensive alliance.
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  194. Even ISIS thought blowing up the Mosul Dam was too immoral. Russia is redefining evil.
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  195. The job probably shouldn't go to an American or Brit as EU members already feel like NATO is dominated by the two countries.
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  196.  @leoniefreihart  You know there are half a dozen countries with Leopard tanks waiting for permission from Germany to send their tanks to Ukraine? It is not like Germany would be the only one sending tanks.
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  197. By "strategically wrong", you mean allowed themselves to be invaded?
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  198.  @mundkhya  Russia invaded Ukraine with the goal of stealing territory and removing Ukrainian sovereignty. There wouldn't be a war or a need for the US to send so many weapons if Russia didn't invade
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  199.  @philipgumm9243  I live in Texas, but okay. Obviously, you didn't see him slump in coach sounding like it hurts for him to speak. He is objectively too old for the job if a flight on a private jet puts him in such poor condition.
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  200.  @Ridethebomb777  As long as you aren't one of those hypocrites who doesn't recognize that Trump is also a dinosaur who needs to retire.
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  201. @E M I actually voted for Biden because I didn't trust that Trump cared about anything except himself. However, I still don't think Biden was qualified for the job either, and I only voted for him due to a lack of alternatives. Of course, I imagine you are a partisan hack who could see Biden on a ventilator and still argue how healthy he is.
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  202. @E M I'm sure that means Boris Johnson is the greatest leader in UK history as apparently support for Ukraine is the only issue that matters. It doesn't matter that Biden's poor policies lead to more inflation, an open border, higher crime, high fuel prices, and the Taliban returning to power.
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  203.  @timonsolus  Roosevelt couldn't walk. He wasn't having mental decline and forced to take naps multiple times a day.
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  204. Tucker would not give a fair interview. It would be leading questions and pro-Putin editing.
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  205. This didn't stop the destruction of ISIS, and this won't stop the destruction of Hamas.
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  206.  @richardloach610  Hamas was mutilating babies
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  207.  @נילגןעדן  Freedom fighters don't target civilians and mutilate babies. Those are terrorists.
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  208.  @imtrashyyy1171  I would argue the ones mutilating babies are the terrorists.
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  209.  @docprune9922  Obviously, they came to the same conclusion as most new weapon packages involve ammunition and air defense as a priority over fighter jets
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  210.  @docprune9922  You know how usefulness of the Western equipment is based on the reaction of Russia. You know it is usefulness if the Russians threaten nuclear war over the weapon system when it is announced, and then you definitely know it a problem for Russia when the state propaganda says it is useless and outdated as it arrives on the battlefield.
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  211.  @goenzoy712  Your critical thinking skills are lacking. The fact that a much smaller state like Ukraine can do so much damage to Russia is the point. Russia has failed every strategic objective, with the exception of the Crimea land bridge, with the cost being their economy, legacy Soviet weapons stockpiles, and tens of thousands of Russian lives. Even Russia's ability to hold the land bridge is in question. Smarter people than you will see this as a cautionary tale.
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  212.  @goenzoy712  What consequences? How about 35,500-43,000 killed in action and 154,000-180,000 wounded? What about a shrinking economy and rising unemployment? What about Russia's brain drain as young men flee abroad? What about all the destroyed Soviet equipment that Russia doesn't have the capability to replace? What about pushing Finland into NATO? What about a rearming of Europe? BTW: Russia has a trade surplus because they can't buy anything because no one will take their useless currency. The upcoming recession will also trigger a drop in oil prices, which will make Russian discounts to China and India unprofitable. This would basically destroy the Russian economy more than any sanctions. If you know anything about US politics, then you will know the Pro-Putin MAGA candidates can't win elections. Ukraine aid will continue to flow.
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  213.  @daydays12  Exactly. They have never entered Ukrainian air space because these "steath" fighters will get detected and shot down. These show pieces are getting destroyed on the runway where the Russians thought they were safe.
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  214. Crimea is the bridge to the other parts of Russian occupied Ukraine. The Donbas is the one that needs the supply through Crimea
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  215.  @ArendJanV  Too much training, logistics, and maintenance would be required before advance fighters would be useful. Tanks and long range rockets would be cheaper and more useful in the short window where Ukraine can push Russia back.
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  216. I wonder if Iran will resort to assassination plots like they did with John Bolton after the US drone strike against the leader of the Qad force.
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  217. No. Zelenskyy would just have NATO fight Russia on Ukraine's behalf.
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  218. Not every Republican believes in this MAGA nonsense. There is a sizable minority in the party who still believes in the principles of Reagan and Lincoln.
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  219. There are basically trenches everywhere you can drive a tank. Good luck driving through a swamp.
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  220.  @B.D.E.  I wasn't arguing against going over the trenches. I was saying there isn't really a place to go around the fortifications like Belgium and the Maginot Line.
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  221.  @Withnail1969  We will see. Russian conscripts tend to squander every advantage given to them. In the Kharkiv offensive, Russians abandoned modern tanks to flee from Ukrainians driving Toyotas and dune buggies.
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  222. It's propaganda. The autocrats need a boogeyman to justify all the horrible things they do.
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  223. @@WilliamStewart-dc4xh There will be no WW3. The Russian military would launch a coup if Putin ordered an attack on NATO as the Russian military would be crushed and if nukes were used than they would all be dead. After the Wagner attack, Putin knows how vulnerable he is. WW3 saber rattling is just dumb Russian propaganda
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  224.  @geoffreycodnett6570  Taliban, no. Saddam's army, yes.
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  225.  @mirkovic  What has NATO taken from Russia?
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  226. Trump hates to read, and he finds policy. Why do Republicans keep pushing for Trump to talk policy?
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  227. MAGA just follows the whims of Trump, and then they try to justify it later. Trump likes Putin because Trump envies autocrats. MAGA ❤ 🇷🇺 Trump hates Zelenskyy because the Ukrainian president wouldn't open a sham investigation against Trump's political opponent. MAGA 🤬 🇺🇦
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  228. An energy crisis could trigger a global recession and give more power to pro-Putin populist in the West.
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  229. The idea that Russia needs to take Ukraine to protect their territory from Europe is ridiculous. As long as Russia has nukes, they don't have to worry about a war of aggression against Russia.
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  230.  @maestro6458  The US/UK only got involved with Ukraine after Russian aggression in 2014. Before that. Ukraine's main western ties were economic ties with the EU. Putin didn't like Ukraine's economic ties with the EU, because Russia's corrupt oligarch economy can't compete with the EU's competitive free market.
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  231.  @maestro6458  Russia has their navy and China has their army in Cuba. Based on your logic, should America launch a special military operation into Cuba?
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  232. Defense's theory: Michael Cohen, the selfish liar, paid off Stormy due to the kindness of his heart, without Trump's knowledge, to silence Stormy for an affair that never happened. There are so many contradictions.
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  233.  @3s0t3r1c  Defense spending. The US taxpayers are footing the bill to protect Europe's interests, while they keep cutting military spending. Just look at how the US military had to mobilize in Syria stop ISIS from planning terrorist attacks against European cities. Now Russia is knocking on Europe's doorstep and the EU is still expecting the US to do all the heavy lifting. I could continue with multiple other examples.
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  234.  @kenmurray4005  Estonia was a freeloader until 2014 with minimal contributions to NATO until Russia threatened them more directly. In fact, Estonia has very little to give Ukraine because their military spending on advance hardware is so recent.
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  235.  @SimplyVanis  They gave all their manpads because they had so few to give. The decades of freeloading resulted in an embarrassingly small stockpile of military equipment. I like point out the Western Europe is much, much worst.
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  236.  @billy6pack887  Russia has half the territory they controlled six months ago. That hardly seems like winning. Ukraine is a democracy fighting against an authoritarian power with imperial ambitions. Seems like a good enough reason to support Ukraine in their defense.
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  237.  @billy6pack887  I'm guessing they don't teach what a pyrrhic victory is in Russian military academies. Losing thousands of soldiers you can't spare on an offensive of a fortified position with little strategic value is not the smartest strategy. If wasn't for all the propaganda value, Ukrainians would probably retreat from Bakhmut to let the Russians throw themselves against the even more fortified cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk. (Cities with actual strategic value unlike Bakhmut).
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  238.  @billy6pack887  Obviously the Soviet tradition of treating young men as expendable continues. At least Stalin's Red Army had a cause worth fighting for in WW2. Putin is sending people to die over conspiracy theories of his own making.
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  239.  @billy6pack887  Russia is not fighting for survival like WW2, so there is a limit to the people's willingness to sacrifice lives and treasure. Look at the limits on manpower. The pool for volunteers had dried up and the regime would be on shaky ground if another mobilization is called. Russia also has difficulty replacing their weapons due to a combination of dependence on Western imports and sanctions. On the low-tech end, they are spending more ammunition than they can possible replace. Meanwhile, Ukraine can source their weapons from the US, Europe, South Korea, and Japan.
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  240. Unfortunately, the Russians own the news cycle as the Ukrainians ask for operational silence.
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  241. MAGA is the treason wing of the Republican party. They are Pro-Kremlin and advocates of overturning elections.
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  242. Because Putin since 1999 has made sure only he can be president.
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  243.  @RobertBrian-h6c  Anyone who has to deal with the repercussions of bad American policy
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  244.  @RobertBrian-h6c  "We" is the people who have to deal with the consequences of poor American policy. Almost everyone.
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  245. It is interesting how he has had the same stance for two years, and the political establishment has been moving to his way of thinking bit by bit.
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  246. First, Putin will pay Trump through his crypto exchange, Truth Social, or Middle East hotels to withdraw from NATO. This bribery will be an official act, so it can't be prosecuted according to the Supreme Court.
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  247. Putin invades the Baltics. Trump: "Putin can do whether he wants, because NATO should have spent 2% of GDP." Meanwhile, the Baltic countries spend almost 4% of GDP.
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  248. Africa is a source of higher grain profit for Putin. Why else bomb Ukrainian grain silos?
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  249. OPEC+ just threw Putin a lifeline. Only a Chinese recession (a major drop in oil demand) will sink Russia 's economy.
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  250. The Russian government is built on a system of corruption instead of merit. This makes them very vulnerable to foreign intelligence infiltration.
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  251. Putin wouldn't have had such an iron grip on his country for decades if that was dumb. That being said, his miscalculation on Ukraine and the West has forced him into dilemmas with no good options.
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  252.  @nosuchthingasshould4175  Poland is switching to South Korean tanks anyway instead of relying on the fickle Germans. Meanwhile, the Ukrainians would prefer to cannibalize a few tanks for parts instead of not having any tanks.
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  253. Watch Ukraine get aid cut off as soon as Gazprom buys millions of dollars in ads on Truth Social.
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  254. A deal only works with NATO security guarantees. Putin doesn't believe in international law or sovereignty. Only the threat of US firepower would make Putin not attempt this again.
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  255. Trump will Make Autocrats Great Again 🇷🇺🇭🇺🇸🇰
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  256. ​ @dpelpal  Technically, American Gen. Mark Milley said 3 days. I think the Mandela Effect caused people to attribute the statements to Russia. Captured Russian documents show Russia planned to take over the Ukrainian government in 10 days.
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  257.  @gregash7683  Most NATO countries have been cutting budgets for decades. Maintenance is one of the first cuts. I don't care how good the engineering is; you can't expect a tank to be operational after it spends years in storage without proper maintenance. Pretty much every NATO country that didn't hit their 2% spending target found this out when looking for equipment to send to Ukraine. Everything had to be repaired, and much of the equipment still wasn't working when it reached Ukraine.
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  258. The job is a diplomatic job as it is more about navigating international politics than actual military strategy. This is why a head of state is preferred over a Secretary of Defense.
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  259.  @johnvaleanbaily246  How can she be guilty of treason without a trial? What kind of backwards judicial system does the UK have?
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  260.  @johnvaleanbaily246  You are making a fool of yourself with your whataboutisms and false equivalencies. Civil Forteiture still involves a civil case where a judge can quickly end the action. The McCathy trials weren't criminal trials in any form. All it did was attack the reputation of accused communists. It was basically the 1950s equivalent of a cancel culture hashtag. Meanwhile, you are endorsing removing the citizenship of child bride without due process. Backwaters judicial system.
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  261.  @jakelynbrook  Republicans haven't won under the Trump platform since he beat Clinton, a deeply unpopular opponent. Trump lost the Senate and House two years later. Trump lost by a large margin to Biden in 2020 due to his lack of leadership during covid. In 2022, his MAGA candidates lost every swing district they ran in because election fraud conspiracies and Trump's personnel grievances don't matter to independents. This leaves the house with such a small majority that the House is taking orders from Gaetz, a known child sex trafficker. Then, in the Georgia runoff, Trump told Republicans that their votes don't matter due to fictional voter fraud, so they stayed home during the election. Trump basically went out of his way to hand the Senate to Democrats. Following January 6 and Trump stealing classified documents to show off to his friends, Trump has never been less popular than today. Your echo chamber is small if you think an independent will want to vote for Trump.
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  262.  @АнтонНиколаев-д2с  Putin's claim that NATO is ready to invade Russia is nonsense that Putin feeds to his most gullible citizens so they don't feel like aggressors when they attack smaller nations. Once Russia got nuclear weapons, the chance of invading went to zero. In addition, if Putin fears NATO so much, then why did he withdraw most troops from the borders of Finland and the Baltics in order to send them into Ukraine?
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  263. Even ISIS thought blowing up the Mosul Dam was too immoral. Russia is redefining evil.
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  264. Nothing new. They targeted every hospital in Syria using the UN list of hospitals designed to prevent hospitals from getting hit accidentally.
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  265.  @TenylegMinekez-uc7co  The NYT has significant evidence showing Russia jets were targeting Syrian hospitals.
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  266. Multiple different tanks are a logistic nightmare, and multiple different jets are worse on a whole other scale. Zelenskyy, who typically will take any weapons system, actually said no to the British Typhoon for this reason.
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  267. Bolton and Trump are very different people. Bolton is an ideologue who will stand on his principles even when it is against his interests or even if it hampers his goals. Meanwhile, Trump believes in nothing and only pretends to be a conservative or liberal when it is a convenient tool to enrich himself.
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  268.  @davidlawrenz2061  Trump's China deal was a disaster. Instead of getting China to agree to reforms that harm America trade such as dumping, intellectual property theft, and protectionism, Trump decided to get China to pinky promise to buy more from America special interests groups. The Result: China bought only 57% of the $200 billion committed to purchase under the deal, not even enough to reach its import levels from before Trump's trade war.
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  269.  @TommyTCGT  Putin did say all that. However, the 3 day quote is incorrectly attributed to Putin.
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  270. You also have cultists who send money because it pays Trump's legal bills.
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  271. @abarthspider3479 The Soviet Union proved that Communism and Russian Imperialism aren't mutually exclusive.
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  272. They were cowards and they deserve the resulting famine for their cowardice.
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  273. The Syrian rebels have captured half the volume of tanks as the Ukrainians have.
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  274. This is a crazy as Russian bloggers who suggested Russia should attack America troops in Syria on behalf of Assad.
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  275. aka the Obama doctrine
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  276. Non-state actor who is massacring civilians across Africa. Sounds like a foreign terrorist organization.
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  277. Too bad Biden only cares about LTGBQ basketball players. He will let American journalists and veterans rot in Russian prison.
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  278. It shameful that there are Asians that discriminate based on his name.
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  279. ​ @garymccormick7551  The volume, scale, and absurdity of Trump's lies are unprecedented. Most politicians mislead by presenting facts without context or spin things in a different light. Trump will just lie about publicly available information that anyone could look up. Most of his lies are easily debunked or conflicting with other statements of his. Beyond a lobotomy, I don't understand how people can trust someone so unconditionally when he lies to them over and over again.
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  280.  @gnrseanra9070  Why didn't Trump testify? He said he would because he did nothing wrong.
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  281. Trump can gas light his audience into believing anything.
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  282. MAGA: The economy was better under Trump because of inflation. Economists: Trump's $9 trillion in deficit spending didn't take effect until the covid lockdowns ended. MAGA: Deep state!
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  283. Facts without context will just make you dumber. Palestinians hate Israelis for the same reason Ukrainians hate Russia. You can't oppress people and expect them to love you.
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  284. A balanced budget is actually bad economics.
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  285. ​ mr.bourbon7975 Democrats will turn out to vote against Trump. They fear Haley, because they will feel unmotivated to vote for Biden.
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  286.  @supertuscans9512  Trump can't even keep straight who Pelosi and Haley are. He needs to go back to his over valued retirement home in Florida.
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  287.  @KillsAll.  The far-right and white supremacist who felt disenfranchised by mainstream Republicans for decades. They feel like Trump represents them. Even if you don't think Trump is racist himself, it is hard to argue to that he certainly panders to them.
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  288. I'm not Muslim, but I hope Assad gets the harshest punishments that Sharia law has to offer.
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  289. Obviously, you haven't been paying attention to Trump allowing Assad and Putin to bomb schools and hospitals in Syria.
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  290.  @timlinator  Romney was better than Obama by among shot.
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  291. Abram are gas guzzling, maintenance nightmares. Unless Ukraine gets a fleet, they are probably more trouble than they are worth.
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  292. ​ @CarlWheatley-wi2cl  BRICs is still smaller than America's economy alone.
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  293. This is naive. Trump supporters are in a cult. They will literally disown their family for the orange Jim Jones.
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  294. ​ @bryandimery6509 How is stagflation going?
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  295. Remember when Putin said over and over that he had zero plans on invading Ukraine?
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  296.  @grahamrandle6458  Evidence? Republicans have been investigating voter fraud and have done dozens of recounts & audits, but still haven't found any evidence of Trump's claims.
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  297.  @theshimario253  You are asking to prove a negative. Dozens of Republican led recounts and audits show Biden won. There is also the complete absence of evidence from Trump. He has been talking about a pending big reveal for three years. What is he waiting on?
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  298. MAGA has abandoned principles like fiscal responsibility, support of the Constitution, American leadership, rule of law, equality, and democracy.
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  299. Trump convinced fiscal conservatives to not care about fiscal responsibility. Trump convinced evangelicals to not care about morality. Trump convinced patriots to not care about the Constitution, democracy, and American. I don't understand how people could give up everything they believe in, for the actor in Home Alone 2.
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  300.  @wilco148  you are full of nonsense, Norman
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  301. ​ @ImmortalTechnique42 They are called Americans
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  302. Russia isn't a real country. It is a creation of the Mongol Empire created using the culture out of Kiev as a template. Mongolia should rule Russia again.
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  303.  @Frank-Lee-Speeking  China is more about distance from water. Most of Siberia is a landlocked desert.
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  304.  @Goldfinch23  These hypotheticals are silly. Russia has nukes, so outside powers aren't going to try to break up Russia, and thanks to Russiafication, half of the population of these ethnic republics are ethnic Russians.
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  305. Yes, but Estonia is smaller than Houston.
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  306. MAGA is already burning ballots and sending death threats to election workers. This is because of the Big Lie and not because of British media.
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  307. While Russia's diplomats are probably mostly spies, it also seems ridiculous for Ireland to run an embassy with only 6 people. For crying out loud, it takes more than 6 people to run a Subway sandwich shop.
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  308.  @Rtg5637  Russia had troops in occupied Ukraine during the entirety of Trump's term. Trump did nothing to stop continuous Russian aggression. He was too busy withholding weapons to Ukraine until Ukraine opened a sham investigation into Biden. Trump also gave Putin and Assad free range to target bomb hospitals and gas kids with chemical weapons. Trump also gave Xi his blessing to lock up Muslims in camps. In addition, he let Xi dismantle Hong Kong's democracy unabated because Trump wanted China to agree to a trade deal that solely benefited China. Autocrats love Trump, the useful fool.
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  309. Putin body doubles are everywhere. Just because Putin is paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get him.
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  310. It is ignoring how Putin's goal is to get close enough for the artillery to exterminate the civilians in the city. Orcs
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  311.  @francisyockey8225  America doesn't do corporate espionage as the government doesn't own any businesses, and American technology is just better. Hiring the same engineers who designed the tech to find exploitable bugs for spying and sabotage. 100%.
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  312.  @LaRevolution0  Incels like you don't even know what a woman feels like
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  313. @sudhirchandra9790  I never talked to them directly, so I don't want to give diagnoses, so take my diagnosis with a grain of salt. Musk is likely on the autism spectrum. This is why he can be so smart even with social interactions that can seem so unusual. Meanwhile, Trump is likely a malignant narcissist. Most people have difficulty lying because there are certain parts of your brain that light up and even be measured on your face when you feel guilt about being deceptive. Trump obviously doesn't feel guilt for lying or doing anything self-serving. This is charm and fluid ability to lie can make on very good at charming people. On the other side emotional intelligence is where Trump has difficulty. Trump's inflated self-worth and need for admiration make him overly sensitive to slights and easily manipulated by flattery.
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  314. @charlottepeukert9095  Musk's gift is to quickly pick multiple interlocking engineering concepts and then streamline all the a manufacturing process to cut costs. Musk goes through every step in the manufacturing process to cut costs. This how he made old technologies, electric cars and rockets, and made them into something commercially viable.
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  315. When Iran blackmails the world with a nuclear weapon, we will look back in hindsight that Bolton was right all along.
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  316. A one party system also has: -no accountability
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  317.  @dalecrocker3213  Evidence of a fixed election? Trump keeps building up to a big reveal of evidence, but it never seems to come ever after 4 years.
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  318.  @dalecrocker3213  Trump should be immune from being prosecuted for his coup attempt and for stealing classified documents because he is running for president? What kind of fringe logic are you operating off of?
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  319.  @Karma386  I'm not sure how Trump gaslighting will do in a courtroom.
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  320.  @SCOTTEDM  I'm sure all the checks and bank statements from the Trump organization to a corn star are a coincidence.
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  321.  @becsmyob2664  I agree. Of course, after two years of investigating, Republicans haven't found any evidence of criminal behavior against Biden.
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  322.  @nunyastinkinbusiness  Worse is that his supporters believe it
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  323.  @sunshinefl6586  The Father The Eric And the Holy Putin ✝️
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  324.  @renemorales8059  The Department of Justice actually makes some pretty solid constitutional points on why you can't indict a sitting president.
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  325. Eat the rich
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  326. Gabbard is a clown 🤡 .
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  327. It's a cult. I'm embarrassed how my party went from debating policy with liberals to arguing about conspiracy theories with anyone who will listen.
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  328. In (Trump's) favor, trade war and higher costs for consumers aren't good for America.
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  329. He will die in prison.
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  330. Gerrymandering is the issue. It is why the house is more extreme than the Senate.
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  331. Ukrainians were making progress until their ammunition supply dried up.
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  332. He hides his identity
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  333. When is the last time Al Qaeda was able to attack the US?
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  334.  @stancromer3362  Unlikely. For example, how many people are going to agree to a conspiracy that to sell off the missile defense that prevents your family from being bombed by the Russians?
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  335.  @Sophiedorian0535  The goal is for Russia to fail to steal any land from a sovereign democracy in order to discourage any autocrats from trying again. The degradation of the Russian military's ability to invade any other US allies is just a major bonus. The US also has zero interest in the collapse of the Russian Federation as Russia has uses keeping peace among its ethnic republics. Just look at how the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict has been escalating due Russia being too weak to enforce a peace.
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  336. The Trump Administration put Trump's fixer in jail for the same crime. Why should the head conspirator not be charged?
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  337. How can the General acknowledge Trump tried to overturn an election and then claim it is unreasonable to say Trump is a threat to democracy?
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  338.  @Eelis0  Western artillery can fire one or two shells to destroy a target, while Russian will fire hundreds and hope they get lucky. Even if Russian artillery barrels are hypothetically three times as durable, they still wear down faster due to a lack of precision firing capability.
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  339.  @tonupharry  The US estimate is less than half that count.
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  340.  @giselameunier4788  Russia is the only country trying to expand their territory. Try again troll.
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  341.  @ibraplanetlife07  Ukrainians are fighting for their shared European values in addition to their own sovereignty and culture.
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  342.  @giselameunier4788  Russia is trying currently to expand its borders with a war. Meanwhile, which country is America trying to annex?
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  343. @bioxid  Vance has no power or influence in the Trump administration. His boss shows Vance little respect and gives him no serious responsibility beyond being a tie breaking vote in the Senate.
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  344. I think Russian incompetence and cowardice don't get enough credit
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  345. All these Republican led voter fraud investigations keep finding Trump supporters trying to vote multiple time for Trump using dead people and identity theft. They will try to vote for Trump over and over.
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  346. The Communist just need to swallow their pride and import vaccines that actually work instead of using their useless domestic ones
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  347. Ukrainian don't need top of the line F-35s to outclass Russian air power. Refurbished F-16s are still better than what Russia operates.
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  348. New tanks? Aren't there only 14 so far?
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  349. Said administration is the only preventing UN sanctions on Israel
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  350. Cohen is not a hero. He is a criminal who turned on his mob boss.
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  351. The issue with Ukraine's domestic production is that the factories and power can be attacked by Russia. Even the F-16s will be vulnerable on the ground to Russian missles
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  352. ​ @Altinget  If the Germans let them.
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  353. ​​ @greatbriton8425  If Putin believes that NATO is such a threat, then why is he pulling so many border troops from Russia's borders with NATO to send them to Ukraine? Obviously, Putin is lying about a "pending NATO invasion" to convince a gullible Russian population to support his colonial ambitions.
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  354. In the UK, where they don't follow US politics as regularly
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  355. It is a stepping stone to take a stepping stone to a much more fortified town. Bakhmut will end up a pyrrhic victory for Russia.
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  356. The US really the only overwhelming Navel power as most nations either have mostly given up challenging the US's navel might or they choose to rely on US navel support for their own protection. The Black Sea is probably one of the few water ways that the US doesn't project its power.
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  357.  @TheRezro  I don't see Turkey letting the US use their airspace as a battlefield.
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  358. I imagine Wagner pulling troops out of Africa and Syria to deal with manpower issues in Ukraine. It seems unlikely to be the other way around.
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  359.  @nataliesthompsonxo  The same reason you would take a foreign-born citizen or a teenager off the ballot. He doesn't qualify under the Constitution to run for the office.
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  360.  @liquiddreamification  Are going to ignore how Trump presented fake electors to Congress to defraud the federal government into appointing him as president based on his lies about election fraud? The whole conspiracy is at least 50 felonies.
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  361. Trump supporters prefer American democracy as it originated: Voters exclusively white, male landowners
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  362. That is false. However, only Trump could get away with contempt so much.
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  363. After Wagner took over French bases in coup Africa, Russia kept rubbing it in. How funny would it be for France to buy the rights to use the base after Russia gets chased out?
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  364. Russians removed major hardware a week ago.
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  365. Trump will end the war like he got Mexico to pay for the wall. Why would anyone take this clown seriously?
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  366. I thought candidates have to be in their 80s?
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  367.  @schielematt  After 9/11 attack, the US used Article 5 of NATO for the only time in the alliance's history. Over 1,100 non-US soldiers died in Afghanistan while supporting America.
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  368. Step 1: Elect Trump Step 2: ...... Step 3: Mexico pay for the wall Trump is making more fake promises.
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  369.  @LordOfLight  False. Lawyers have codes of ethics that include not lying and not bringing frivolous lawsuits. Bringing a frivolous lawsuit designed designed to intimidate a journalist reporting on a war criminal is completely without merit or ethics.
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  370.  @LordOfLight  It is difficult to disbar a lawyer for bad ethics, but that doesn't make their actions morally right. Obviously, you have zero experience in law.
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  371. @Heart Of Darkness  Obviously, you keep dancing around the fact the war criminal's lawyers are presenting a frivolous lawsuit to intimidate a journalist into silence because your whole argument is without merit. While even a war criminal is entitled to legal representation, he is not entitled to have lawyers break the law or their code of ethics on his behalf.
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  372. Doubtful. Most of the world will cave to economic interests over moral interests. Just look at how silent Latin America and Africa are over Russia's war crimes, even though Russia is an economic basket case.
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  373. His mob would storm the court house and hand the judge. It is a cult and it's leader is violent.
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  374.  @Rtg5637  JB didn't force Trump to commit campaign financial crimes, steal classified information, obstruction justice, and plot the overthrow of a free and fair election. That was all Trump's choices and now he faces the consequences.
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  375. Trump hasn't respected a law or contract in his life. You think he is going to care about treaties?
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  376.  @LA-kc7ev  Alan Dershowitz? The defense lawyer of OJ Simpson, Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, and Donald Trump?
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  377. I find civil war unlikely. However, I imagine domestic terrorism from Trump's personality cult would be common place for a decade if Trump loses the election or gets put in prison. There would a Timothy McVeigh in every state.
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  378. ​ @boozecruiser Did the courts, including those with judges appointed by Trump, ever rule in favor of Trump's election fraud claims?
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  379. Trump is trying to be Orban and Putin. The first step is to consolidate oligarchs around himself.
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  380. The US should still buy Greenland
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  381.  @mosquitocoast25  Denmark doesn't want to sell Greenland at the offered price under this current geopolitical climate. Let's see if Denmark wants to deal with Greenland when Russia escalates the militarization of the Artic.
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  382.  @ekesandras1481  Denmark doesn't want to sell Greenland at the offered price under this current geopolitical climate. Let's see if Denmark wants to deal with Greenland when Russia escalates the militarization of the Artic.
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  383. Obviously, surrendering to the Taliban without anything in return was a bad idea. Let's go Brandon.
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  384.  @benwilson6145  A dumb argument. Trump negotiated a deal, but the Taliban weren't holding up their part of deal when Biden took charge. Biden didn't have obligation to hold up the deal as long as the Taliban ignored their any obligations. Instead, Biden just gave the Taliban everything they wanted with nothing in return (which wasn't the deal under Trump).
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  385. Someone didn't see the end of Rocky.....
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  386.  @jennyfromtheblock.7153  His cult will love Putin if Trump tells them to, and independent voters only vote on economic issues and sometimes abortion.
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  387.  @Jay-cp9kd  Trump called Putin "genius" and "savvy" for invading Ukraine in two separate statements.
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  388. ​ @TheVeritas2100  Name the treaty that NATO broke. I could name dozens that Putin has violated.
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  389. This is equivalent to the US being forced to side with Assad or Al Qaeda. One is a violent oppressor and the other is a radical terrorist organization fighting the oppression.
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  390.  @bhupendraparekh6225  There isn't any evidence of that conspiracy.
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  391. I honestly feel bad for Russians for being too dumb to recognize the horrible things their government is doing on their behalf
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  392.  @ТанечкаНовчик  You know Russia is the one bragging about their war crimes? It is disgusting how much pride the butchers are taking for bombing hospitals, schools, and power stations.
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  393. Trump ❤ Putin 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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  394. Ukraine isn't short on pilots as Ukraine, unlike jets, because Russia tends to destroy the Ukraine jets when they are on the ground.
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  395. Ukraine isn't going to lose western tanks to mud in an already swampy region that was flooded only weeks ago.
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  396. The UN Charter and Russia regonized Ukrainia's borders in sovereignty in 1991. If Russia can't respect that, then it is time for Russia to step down from the UN Security Council.
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  397.  @Radioguy-tf6rp  Matt Gaetz as Secretary of Education, so he can meet high school girls across the country. MTG as Department of Homeland Security, so she can protect us from Space Lazers. Trump 2024
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  398.  @pogo1140  Poland transfered their MIGs to a NATO base in Germany to be transferred to Ukraine, but nothing came out of it. There aren't any dog fights in Ukraine. Russia won't risk their jets by flying over Ukraine airspace. Airpower would be best for combine arms, but the amount training that would take in a new western jet isn't realistic. Russian are also perfectly capable of easily shooting down a f16. Longer range HIMAR missles and cheaper, advance drones would be smarter.
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  399.  @pogo1140  Flying and bombing a fixed target is relatively easy (and a task easily preformed by HIMARS). Combined arms fighting takes significantly more training. Russian pilots still can't combined arms fighting it due to having less training than NATO counterparts. It isn't realistic to expect a crash course to make Ukraine a NATO equivalent air force. There are smarter, less flashy ways to give Ukrainian a sustainable military advantage over Russia.
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  400. To be fair, the US doesn't give access to its nukes to NATO partners.
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  401. ​ @livingtribunal4110 Good joke. Clearly, the Russians are lying about Nazis and causalities.
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  402.  @lamsmiley1944  I would argue that the HIMARs were more important in the Dombas. The Russians were dumping an insane amount of artillery on Ukraine positions, but the HIMAR attacks on ammo dumps forced the Russians to stock their supplies way further from the front line. This logistical issue for Russia stalled many Russian advances as they couldn't bring artillery shells to the front line fast enough.
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  403.  @imperatorvespasian3125  That sounds like what economists are hired to do for banks and companies with large logistic chains.
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  404.  @richardmarsden.5610  The Venezuelan Bolívar is worthless. The Russian Ruble isn't very valuable in the international market. Considering that the Ruble was expected to collapse years earlier and to a greater extent, the Russian central bank is managing well.
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  405.  @richardmarsden.5610  I Japanese Yen is equal to 0.00640167 US dollars. Is Japan's currency worthless?
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  406. "Damaged" could mean repaired in a day or shut down for months. Even minor damage is still beneficial as it forces Russia to spread their air defenses, which makes military targets less defended and puts extra cost on the Russian oil industry.
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  407. They care if they want partners in other objectives.
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  408. Biden got his Ukraine aid, and Republicans didn't get the border deal that was originally offered to them on a silver platter. MAGA politicians must be the most incompetent negotiators ever.
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  409.  @brendansparks1511  It seems obvious to question if Trump was involved in Cohen's crimes when Trump is the sole beneficiary. Without Trump's direction, Cohen would have no reason to pay off Trump's affair or lie to Congress. The cognitive dissonance Trump-world must go through to believe "disloyal liar" Cohen paid off a corn star to be silent about an affair that never happened from Cohen's own pocket due to Cohen's inherent goodness and loyalty.
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  410.  @gnrseanra9070  Cohen went to jail for lying when he said he didn't pay a corn star for her silence as an illegal campaign contribution. You think he did it on behalf of a judge he wouldn't meet for 8 years? MA GA conspiracies are getting more nonsensical every day.
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  411. Take her back and prosecute her for a crime. That is the proper way to protect the public.
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  412.  @steveb3060  Is that why Trump offers money and jobs to people to not testify against him?
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  413.  @peterwainwright5994  Trump supporters saw the violence of January 6 live on Fox News, but a year later, they have been gaslighted into thinking it was a peaceful protest. You can't argue with collective delusion.
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  414. The only thing that gets him in trouble is when he talks military strategy when his team doesn't have anyone with military experience. Otherwise, very informed and data driven
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  415.  @cryptokid1021  Textbook projection
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  416. Trump only believes loyalty goes in one direction - to him. It is why Trump stabbed the Kurds in Syria in the back.
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  417.  @WhizzRichardThompson  It is crazy how people could wave the American flags as they try to overturn a democratic election and call it patriotic.
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  418. The UK plan to hit NATO's 2% of GDP benchmark is to just drop their GDP with Brexit.
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  419.  @gordanmoran4549  The Abram works for the US due to them haven't plenty of specialized mechanics, a unparalleled logistics, and nearly unlimited money for fuel. Meanwhile, Leopard tanks will just require a refresher course for Ukraine's diesel mechanics.
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  420.  @leoniefreihart  They have asked permission to send their German-made tanks to Ukraine, but Germany won't let them. They have to ask Germany permission to re-export, because that is part of the contract for buying those tanks. Poland and Norway are very vocal in wanting to send their Leopards, so if you can't find a source then you aren't looking very hard.
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  421.  @dragani2330  Seems like using bureaucracy as an excuse to cowardice. Classic Germany.
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  422.  @dragani2330  Poland, Nordic, Baltic government officials all asked the German officials if they send their Leopard tanks to Ukraine, and the German response was "we are still thinking about it". Since they didn't ask for any clarification through paperwork, it makes me think you are either very dim or intentionally making a disingenuous argument.
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  423.  @dragani2330  👈More disingenuous arguments. The Leopard is the most common tank in NATO. This means that there are dozens of countries that can send their Leopard tanks to Ukraine if the Germans weren't so busy trying to appease Putin by not allowing Leopard tanks to be re-exported to Ukraine. Having a uniform tank force will simplify maintenance, logistics, and training. The Challengers are probably more trouble than they are worth, but they were sent because Germany said they didn't want to be the first to send tanks. Of course, the lying Germans moved the goal post by saying UK tanks don't count. I'm sure as soon as Abrams are sent, the lying Germans will move the goalpost again to justify their cowardice.
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  424.  @dragani2330  Double standard with Germany!?! They spend less than 1% of GDP on military spending and most of that goes to bureaucratic nonsense. Germany hasn't done their fair share in decades. Even when Germany sends equipment to Ukraine, it often months late and broken. Your deflections of German cowardice is getting lazier and lazier. The 1936 Montreux Convention makes it impossible to move navel equipment into the Black Sea. It is also embarrassingly hypocritical to criticize America for not going to war with the Russian Navy when Germany is too scared to send tanks for Germany to defend themselves.
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  425.  @dragani2330  The Budapest Memorandum wasn't a defense treaty. The UK, US, and Russia agreed not to attack Ukraine if Ukraine gave up their nukes. The US and UK wanted tougher EU sanctions on Russia after the 2014 invasion, but Germany had the sanctions watered down and then they built another Nord Stream pipeline. The copping to justify German cowardice and Putin appeasement is impressive.
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  426.  @dragani2330  Do you really not understand that every EU country as veto power over EU foreign policy? Germany has always been Putin's champion in the EU.
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  427.  @dragani2330  🤣🤣🤣🤣 Germany was so humiliated by their cowardice that the only poltical out for the chancellor was if America bailed them out with a goodwill gesture. Due to Germany selfishness, America will now be wasting resources on a few troublesome tanks instead of more useful equipment that could help Ukraine win the war.
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  428.  @dragani2330  Nationalist rhetoric? Only the Social Democrats are pro-appeasement. Everyone else feels shame for the cowardice.
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  429. Didn't Trump pardon a few American war criminals?
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