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Democratic Senator Jack Reed accused Trump of “surrendering to the Russians” as his administration pushes for U.S.-Russia talks over Ukraine.

Special envoy Steve Witkoff suggested Ukraine’s NATO ambitions provoked the war and declined to blame Russia.

Zelenskyy, under pressure, said he would step down for peace if Ukraine gained NATO membership.

The Trump administration denies favoring Russia and claims its strategy brings peace closer without criticizing Putin’s invasion.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (14 children)

Putin must have dirt on Trump. I doubt Trump cares about anyone but himself.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

With all the blatant proven scandals, straight up convicted felonies, and international crimes, this guy still squats in the Whitehouse. Beyond all sanity, somehow this happened. I seriously wonder what kind of dirt would actually be able to control him at this point.

It could come out tomorrow that he hired Wagner Group personally to exterminate an entire island of indigenous people to put a golf course on it. There could be documents with his signature and recorded audio of the phone call, and that news would just blend in with the rest of his noise.

I dunno, I think he just sees other fascists as "fellow businessmen" and has an insatiable lust after his own ego. Like it's overly simplistic maybe but "He's just evil." Seems to be an ample explanation for everything about him...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Evil is a superstition word. Psychology more than explains his behavior. He's a narcissist and probably has other mental health issues.

However, he has enough money that he is never forced to address these issues and surrounds himself with people who benefit from manipulating him by using these traits.

He'll probably never even realize how dysfunctional he would be as a regular person that has to interact with society to survive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Still, he did achieve his goal of being a president of US not once but twice. He had to make a deal with the devil to achieve it but he did. And if he was totally incompetent even the devil wouldn't help. And it's not like his deal has cost him much at all so far.

I think there is a good chance he'd know how to skirt the law if he'd start at a lower rung too.

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