Comments by "peabase" (@peabase) on "What US military aid pause means for Ukraine's future | DW News" video.

Yeah, Trump spoke about peace, but far more so about helping himself to Ukraine's mineral riches. You seem to be an appeasement aficionado. An unjust peace will only whet Putin's appetite for Lebensraum, just like that of the Austrian painter in Munich in 1938.
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@bearmerica6668 You're playing Putin's game, that much is clear.
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I wonder if Trump would ever get a majority in Congress for a US withdrawal from NATO. More than a year ago, Biden signed into law that a US president may not unilaterally withdraw from NATO, so an exective order won't do it. Interestingly, the anti-presidential withdrawal bill was spearheaded by Marco Rubio, Trump's current secretary of state.
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The proper conjugation of the verb lose eludes you.
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@deplorablechump8758 Conquers? Trump -- and the US -- just lost any confidence that Europe still had in the US doing the right thing. And not just Europe's confidence.
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@JohnSmith-ux3tt Which bills are you referring to? I'm not aware of any invoicing between NATO members, and I did an internship with NATO in Brussels. If there was an arrangement for us paying for US troops stationed in Europe, I'd think that would come to 1% or less of US GDP -- let's say a quarter of your defence budget. Say, can we send a bill for having had troops in Afghanistan for 18 years straight? You may want to expand on Trump's diplomatic efforts, too, since you appear to be in the know. We've seen Trump try to lure Ukraine into giving the US control of its minerals. I would call that colonialism rather than diplomacy.
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Yeah, we're representative democracies, and highly democratic parliamentary ones, too. You desperately need to read up on what that means.
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@cybronichuman I had an inkling you wouldn't get it. In a representative democracy, we vote in politicians to represent us, and in doing so, we entrust them with decision-making powers to decide on our behalf, because we can't possibly concern ourselves with all matters on hand. Can I ask you directly, did you graduate from high school?
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@mikemelina7395 Thank you for your keen interest in my person. I'm of mixed origin, but the nationalities that I hold appear twice in the top 10 of the Democracy Index. How about yours? Don't be coy.
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@cybronichuman I like pissing contests. I've got a double master's in History and Politics. And a BSc in Military Science. And an EMBA. Even more so than before, it begs the question why you don't understand something as basic as representative democracy. We trust our duly elected representatives to make political decisions on our behalf, including on funding defensive wars against a brutal aggressor. Simply put, the OP implies that if he/she/they disagrees, these representatives of the people can be held liable to pay for it themselves. How would that work in your esteemed opinion? And who's arguing that protesting is not allowed? You're making stuff up as you go along.
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@cybronichuman What are you, the OP's sock puppet, who's now backtracking because you realised that your initial comment was asinine? I'm going by what he/she/they wrote. You're apologetically trying to find an alternative meaning to his/her/their words. Also, you started flaunting your degrees, apparently in an effort to establish academic superiority. Sorry, four academic degrees beat two.
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@cybronichuman No, I have to spell it out to you, your (bogus?) degrees notwithstanding. You're trying to dismiss a clear expression of distrust in electoral mandates as an innocent protest, which is suggestive of you -- like the OP -- not holding firmly established democratic institutions in high regard. Or -- to give you the benefit of the doubt -- you commented unthinkingly, and now your pride prevents you from conceding the argument.
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@stanley8574 That sounds unmistakably like a feeble excuse. Are you saying that sending a few US mining engineers to Ukraine, to see to it that Ukraine pays its "dues", will deter Putin from attacking again? They're laughing at you in Moscow.
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