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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

I’m amazed Zelensky doesn’t stand up and slap the both of them across their faces holyyyyyyy

[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 hours ago

Imagine being Zelensky and having to fly some some rando country to beg for help from a Nazi asshole to end the invasion from another Nazi asshole. And if you were to die, one of the two assholes would win?

Zelensky, if you need my help personally, just ask. I have a wheelbarrow so we can carry your balls. Trump would love it if his genitalia could weigh down a party balloon.

[–] [email protected] 183 points 8 hours ago (16 children)

fuck you america for voting for this fascist scumbag. nobody should trust you again.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Almost nobody using Lemmy voted for him.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago

They basically handed one of the strongest countries in the world to a very typical college bully and his lackies.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

Most of us want the shithead gone just as bad as you do, but too many dumbshits decided they'd rather not stop him because the alternative wasn't perfect. I hate it here.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 hours ago (13 children)

Most? He already was president and over 50% voted that guy into office again? How are most people against him?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

He didn't get 50% of the vote.

He won be cause either 6 million people didn't vote or, to quote Trump, "[Elon] knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers. Those vote-counting computers. And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide."

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[–] [email protected] 335 points 9 hours ago (11 children)

Does anyone else have the feeling that Ukraine is safer with no deal?

[–] thatonecoder 188 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, and the EU should immediately step up, and triplicate support for Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

We (Europe) already did most of the heavy lifting for Ukraine. The US mostly gave old stockpiles of weapons that they would've needed to destroy anyway. We are the ones actually paying cash to keep them afloat.

The problem is, in the post-WW2 order, our defense and our defense industry was made dependent on the USA by design. And even up until last November, Europe didn't want to challenge this arrangement and just went full steam ahead with this arrangement, ordering US made weapons. I think Europe was in denial that Biden could lose or that NATO could ever end.

Only France, and to a limited extent, Sweden and Turkey, have independent defense industries.

In the future, we will have it again. And Ukraine will actually be a key player.

But in the short term, there is no magical button to press that can produce the arms.

Undoing decades of integration isn't going to be easy.

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[–] Kichae 150 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Any deal with Trump is no deal at all. He's the kind of guy that, if you give an inch, starts waving his hands around about how you stole 16 inches from him, and how you must be thrown in a hole somewhere.

Granting him anything is telling him that you are weak and ripe to be exploited.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 hours ago

Just like with any dictator deals are worthless. Putin broke the ceasefire and Trump is breaking trade deals.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

This guy does (he was there too, sitting next to vance, btw)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

A man who, by the way, was fully supported by every single democratic senator.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

He was supposed to be the "adult" in the room. They all fear Trump... For some reason, I don't get it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I'm certain Dr Birx can recommend him a therapist who specializes in sold souls...

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[–] chuck 16 points 6 hours ago (8 children)

Ah it's time for Poland to raise a big stink about the next errant missile and invoke article 5 as the zerg rush red square

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[–] [email protected] 205 points 9 hours ago (10 children)

I watched some of the transmission and all I can say is my respect to Zelensky grew tenfold with that exchange alone.

Having to interact with these two clowns and still keeping his cool (as much as he was able to) requires A LOT of patience and will. It was horrifyingly stupid in a train wreck kind of way.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 9 hours ago

Zelensky deserves every award there is for being able to keep his cool like that. I certainly wouldn't have been able to.

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Did Trump and Vance think this embarrassing display made them look the better of the leaders?

Because it really didn't.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (5 children)

Yea, looks like they used their leverage over Zelensky to lure him into a trap that turned out to be a verbal-WWE media stunt...

...turns out Zelensky is more articulate and mature than both of them combined...

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Congrats America, we're the bad guys now.

A foreign democracy is sending an entire generation of their male populace into the afterlife to prevent Russia from expanding their borders and influence, which is bad for everyone including America, and our dumbfuck "leader" is trying to fleece them for everything he can in exchange for helping them with what amounts to chump change.

Such an embarrassing time to be an American. We're transitioning into a much more dangerous world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

A foreign democracy is sending an entire generation of their male populace into the afterlife to prevent Russia from expanding their borders and influence

More to the point, to defend themselves. Ukraine isn't playing some kind of geopolitical game; it's trying to survive and has a huge moral high ground that your characterization of it disregards.

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