According to U.S. President Donald Trump, Russia “has been fine on Ukraine” and “hasn’t been doing much” to the country it has been attempting to violently conquer for over a decade.

“Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine. They haven’t been doing much,” Trump told reporters on Oct. 19.

The president’s remarks came the same day that a Russian daytime drone strike in a public park killed six people, including two children. The night before, Russia attacked Kyiv with over a dozen ballistic missiles and targeted nearly 30 critical energy facilities across the country.

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    He’s so used to living in a world where what he said is just what is, that when he says something so colossally stupid as this…. he truly thinks it’s radiates with an empirical profundity never imagined before. And this is because there exists no one in his world that will ever disagree with him or deny him anything he so much as glances at in intldifference.

    His entire being, his family,… the sum of all things, matter and- otherwise- that coalesced to form what now represents the unrivaled and peerlessly pure definition of abject impudence that a mortal human being can achieve without collapsing inward on itself like a dying star isn’t worthy of the oxygen it would take just to breathe these words aloud.

    And while many of us see him as the anthropomorphic end-product of a stool softener overdose, millions and millions of people remain ready to fight and die for this… gelatinously grotesque projection of what the concept of loathing would look like on a Rorschach Test if it happened to accidentally fall into and then back out of his diaper repeatedly.

    I guess all I’m saying is….

    They won’t show mercy, nor should you.

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    There is absolutely no limit to Trump’s depravity. He is utterly without a soul; purely and completely evil.

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        “Why don’t the pillars of frozen suffering faces simply rise up against the cenobites? It must be because they’re also evil, actually. I am very smart.”

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              I’ll take a crack at it for him, as a born and raised American who has since left.

              Nobody is saying everyone in America is evil. In fact, fantastic and incredible and amazing people live there.

              But as an aggregate population, they put Trump in charge. There is no getting around that. We can hem and haw all we want about “only X percentage of the population voted” and whatever nonsense we want to to make us feel better about the US population in the aggregate, but at the end of the day enough people either wanted this, or didn’t care enough to stop it, to make this happen. That is not a condemnation of every American - in the same way that calling Russia an evil country is not a condemnation of every Russian, but if anything, the population of the US is MORE culpable for this mess because their elections, at least in 2024, meant something.

              I’m sure you and most of the people you know are damn fine, respectable, incredible people. But that’s not the whole anymore. The country as a whole has lost the plot, and I’m not convinced they can ever get it back.

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                **republicans have lost the plot. the voters are mindless cattle. the politicians//influencers are unironically evil

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                Well maybe, in point of fact I’m also a recovering American. I see American democracy as fundamentally broken at this point, so I tend to find fault with anyone describing Americans based on election results. Democracy has been under attack ever since the business plot, and it was never in great shape to begin with. Blame Nixon and every (including Democrats) president and congressperson since him for letting it happen in slow-motion plain daylight.

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                  They certainly accelerated things, but the fact is, people had every single opportunity at the ballot box to choose better and failed to do so. There were no tanks rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue. This was not a coup. Getting to this point happened because enough of the populace were complicit. I’m glad you’re also a recovering American, but the people who are left have to really consider when they say “This isn’t us.” No, it isn’t you, but as a whole country? This might be “us”, and it’s time to seriously consider the company they’re keeping.

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                  At this point? I think one of the first political discussions I had with my father was that the US legal and democratic system are broken beyond repair and have been for decades now. It took Trump’s ideocracy to make it painfully obvious.

                  Arguably I think many countries have arrived or will be arriving at the threshhold of functionality. So far the only two remedies that history provides are revolution or utter capitulation after losing a war. Let’s hope we find another less violent yet systematically equally disruptive solution. I for one cling to the believe that there’s still hope.

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    So the US agreed to protect Ukraine from Russia of they gave up their nukes, and now the US says it’s fine for Russia to invade Ukraine.

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      So the US agreed to protect Ukraine from Russia of they gave up their nukes

      No, the USA never agreed to protect Ukraine - it was an atrocious deal for the latter.

      This not being in a nuclear umbrella is the reason why Russia was willing to risk invading them.

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          Yes, thanks for asking. Did you?

          The Budapest Memoranda do not contain “If someone else (e.g. Russia) attacks you, we will deploy our own military assets against them to defend you”, which would be the requirement for the “the USA agreed to protect Ukraine from Russia in exchange for them giving up their nukes” claim.

          I’m not a fan of the USA’s foreign policy, but there’s no need to claim they promised something they did not.

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      Ukraine wouldn’t have been able to maintain or replenish the nukes they had when the USSR collapsed. It was a concession that made perfect sense.

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    He just wants Russian oil to drive down gas prices for the midterms. He never cared about Ukraine it was just words to get votes.

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    He’s doing everything in his might to lose the midterms even harder. That’s the last Putin is gonna get out of him and he knows it.

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        Actually, it could prove fatal to assume that the Republicans are going to lose the house(s). We should assume that they won’t and do everything so that they actually do.

        But I do think that Putin is seeing Trump’s usefulness for him fading, even if we’re just looking at a potential defeat of his party.

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          Absolutely. Mobilising dem voters is critically important.

          However, I don’t think that’s how Putin would see Trump. The whole strategy since forever has just been chaos.

          Whatever bullshit they can stir up in the US is good for Putin, it doesn’t really matter what. They’ve been very successful, but it’s by no means over. It’s plausible that the US could have civil unrest, civil war, or a constitutional crisis in the coming months.

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    In an interview with U.S. broadcaster ABC that aired over the weekend, Trump was asked about Putin’s presence in Ukraine.

    He replied: “He’s not going to go into Ukraine, alright? You can mark it down. You can put it down. You can take it anywhere you want.” To which the puzzled interviewer asked: “Well, he’s already there, isn’t he?” referring to Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and support for separatists in Ukraine’s east.

    “OK, well, he’s there in a certain way. But I’m not there. You have Obama there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama with all the strength that you’re talking about and all of the power of NATO and all of this. In the meantime, he’s going away. He take, takes Crimea.”

    – Donald Trump: If I’m Elected, Vladimir Putin Is Not Going Into Ukraine (2016)

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      How can anyone read / listen to this and think this person is intellectually capable of managing a country, let alone the one with the most powerful military in the world?!? 😂🙈

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        I’m seething as an Australian. Yes, it has nothing to do with me, but somehow watching the shit show that is global politics is the train wreck from which I can not avert my eyes.

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    The old, fat, orange bitch of Putin’s is big butt-hurt because Ukraine disrupted Putin’s bot army for him by bombing a data center - sad, sick, pervert.