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What did I miss exactly
Trump finally realized Putin has been playing him, with some not-so-subtle help from Melania. Trump did an abrupt about-face on Ukraine policy over the last few days and the US is going to start shipping them weapons again.
Don't forget, Trump's full of shit. He was talking positively about Ukraine right before the shipments stopped in the first place. As far as I remember Hegseth got blamed for the stoppage, but he's still the Secretary of Defense, sooo... don't assume anything Trump says will happen until actual moves are made. And as far as I can tell, zero moves to restart shipments have actually happened.
"Don't listen to what leaders say, watch what leaders do."
Sun TzuWilliam Spaniel
Trump did an abrupt about-face on Ukraine policy over the last few days and the US is going to start shipping them weapons again.
Did he say all of this, or did he do it?
Because Trump's word is worthless. Less than worthless. Like, inverse debt millionaire worthless. Every time somebody listens to him talk, he actually owes them money.
There does seem to be a major policy shift happening. Still TACO principal can never be ruled out.
With Europe paying for them. The US president is oh so kind to allow us to buy them at full list price. Thanks, ally
oh so you want us to STARVE??
I mean, some reduction in food intake would be good for 80% of your population
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To be honest, I think that's barely a footnote.
Like, yeah, transfer some made up numbers from our computer to your computer, whatever. Money has a different meaning when it comes to the state that manages it spending it. ECB will adjust its interest rate a month later or something to make up for it. The issue right now is that Europe has neither stockpiles nor production capacity, so the USA sending their hardware is the game changer.
The issue right now is that Europe has neither stockpiles nor production capacity, so the USA sending their hardware is the game changer.
And who's fault is that? The US has been creating its own military industrial complex for the last 75 years, spending literally half of its budget on useless weapons that will barely get used, all at the cost of benefits that its citizens could have had.
Meanwhile, Europe has two tugboats and some leftover AK-47s in a warehouse somewhere.
You make it sound like I said something different?
It's more like 15% of the whole annual budget. About half of the discretionary budget, but then you add in interest payments and social security and things like that.
But yes, the rest of the Western world has been complacent as hell.
No, Trump is too stupid and selfish to admit that, rather I think Trump realizes Ukraine is now decisively winning, Russia is falling apart and it makes him look weak to be alone in backing the losing side so he flip flopped to Ukraine.
There is no other reasonable explanation that makes sense, Trump jumped ship on Putin because Trump is a coward, end of story.
I don't know, being the last person on the planet to realise Putin might not genuinely want peace is pretty dumb. And, if he actually just needed Russia to win that would have been pretty easy to accomplish, as US president.
Trump doesn't "just" need Putin to win.
There are interests that allign between them and interests that don't.
Trump doesn't have loyalties or ideologies beyond doing whatever he selfishly thinks will be best for him.
My argument is that Trump is behaving selfishly by jumping ship on the Putin train, not that Trump is intelligent. Trump is an idiot, and worse he is a terrible person.