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The State Department has ended a major USAID initiative to restore Ukraine’s energy grid, which has suffered continuous Russian attacks.

The move, seen as a signal of declining U.S. support, also includes downsizing USAID’s presence in Ukraine from 64 to just 8 personnel.

Officials warn this could leave Ukraine vulnerable, especially during winter, and reduce oversight of financial aid.

Additionally, a financial sector reform program has been terminated. The decision is part of the broader Trump administration policies shifting away from strong U.S. involvement in Ukraine.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Didn't Krasnov Trump say he wants killing to stop. why is he killing people by crippling energy grid restoration.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

The world's leading supertoddler.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 hours ago

Trump is a Russian asset. We knew this 8 years ago, and we know it today.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

isn’t this the effect of cutting such funds in late January?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Probably, and this would be the convenient timing of 5800 USAID canceled connects over last weekend.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

Hi, sorry. I'm new here, what does your rainbow pentagon thing next to your name mean? Cheers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 hours ago

Russia must be celebrating; USAID was a key pillar in Ukraine’s resilience.

🐱🐱

[–] [email protected] 168 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Fuck every single person that voted for this doofus rapist shit head. Furthermore, fuck every registered voter that decided to sit this one out because, "reasons". Our country alone arguably deserves the fallout this coward shitstain will stir up, the rest of the world absolutely does not.

I really thought his handling of the covid pandemic (among everything else) would have been a wakeup call to Americans that he is beyond dumb as fuck. He clearly and plainly fucked it every single step of the way. I have since tempered my expectations of my fellow countrymen. Apathy, racism, ignorance and incuriosity will doom this institution.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I lost faith in my fellow Americans the day we elected the fuckstick the first time.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 14 hours ago

Same here. I gained a little back when we rejected his ass last time but after the ensuing bullshit from conservatives during Biden's term, lost it again. I had a feeling trump would win. It's sad but I'm just gonna try and keep my hopes low for the us from now on. I think we will never be anywhere near the top on any front ever again and this is the point the decline is starting to hit hard

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

he’s not dumb, he’s a businessman. Like all successful businessmen the only deciding cards are: resources (material or immaterial) and power.

I’m only sad about the fact that there’s absolutely no signs of diplomacy from no one’s end and that’s not a good sign

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

Lol, he's a terrible businessman because he's so dumb. He's a decent con artist and has always had enough family money to bounce back from his many failures.

[–] [email protected] 189 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"we can't have a woman in the Whitehouse. She'd be too emotional"

👀

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

Don't be silly, anger isn't an emotion, duh.

[–] [email protected] 172 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

God fucking dammit.

You fucking idiot motherfucking rapist orange shithead. And your ketamine boy.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget the arse-linking, couch fucking lackey.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 13 hours ago

If only we all could.

[–] [email protected] 113 points 19 hours ago (27 children)

The Toddler-in-chief hoping that daddy Putin will pat him on the head and tell him what a good boy he is.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 18 hours ago

The Orange Turd is a traitor just like the people who voted for him.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

This was the plan from the beginning. Krasnov and co just needed an nice stage to humiliate him and use it for "reason" to revoke this. Traitor in chief. Utterly disgusting

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 19 hours ago

Bone spurs.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

"Reeee zelenskyy hurt my fee fees! I get to destroy his entire country's economy now!"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Not just the economy. He's also getting a lot of people killed, injured and traumatized.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Vlad is Vladislav
Vladimir is Vova
yeah, weird, i know

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

The more you know. Thank you. Fuck, Vova.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

To add, if you didn't know that, Zelensky and Putin are both Vovas, but the start of their names are spelled a bit different, Volodymyr vs Vladimir, volo vs vla, following ukrainian and russian takes at the same root name. The thing that doesn't make sense tho is that the end of their names, dymyr\dimir is spelled exactly the same, and is not a marker of dialects, but rather Putin having an old soviet-like transliteration of a slavic name while Zelensky has a more modern one that follows the actual way it's spelled. A probable reason for why the old version is like that is that russian and ukrainian have their У sounding very different to English Y, like 'ugh', and using 'I' avoided such association. I'm not a linguist at all, so take it with a grain of salt.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Trump just wants peace. He wants the killing to stop. And he wants to cut life-saving aid to impoverished countries. And Medicaid.

[–] floofloof 7 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

And he wants Canada and Panama and Greenland and if Europe doesn't do everything he says he wants it to be vulnerable to Russian attack. He's a man of peace.

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