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Kathleen a evenson's avatar

So you voted for Biden then? Man U r truly dumb πŸ˜πŸ˜πŸ˜πŸ˜πŸ˜πŸ˜πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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Lawrence Beck's avatar

A quote from Simplicius76 (https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trump-storms-out-the-gate-but-already?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1351274&post_id=155115182&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1ik0i&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email)

"The most interesting development vis-a-vis Ukraine was hearing Trump’s first words as president regarding the situation. You’ll recall for months we were forced to listen to claims from various mouthpieces like Kellogg and Waltz who appeared to be speaking on Trump’s behalf, though we could never be sure. But now President Trump has issued his first nuggets to give us an idea of the direction things might goβ€”and they are interesting.

Firstly, a far more staid and reeled-in Trump forewent the now expected blustering bravado about marching up to Putin and forcing him to end the war in a single day. Instead, in an uncharacteristically quiet and uncertain tone, Trump remarked that negotiations would depend entirely on whether Putin is interested or not:

Unfortunately, Trump exposes his complete ignorance and lack of credibility when it comes to the Ukrainian conflict by subsequently complaining that Russia has suffered an outrageous one million dead soldiers in the war. How can anyone possibly count on the man so ill-informed to be the savior that miraculously ends the war? We can understand a little flourish for the media to dress it up a bit, make things seem more dire for effectβ€”but peremptorily citing such numbers just makes Trump look sadly disconnected, which further colors any of his efforts toward the war as similarly half-assed; that’s not to even mention his claim that Spain is a member of BRICS.

He goes on to say that Putin is destroying Russia by not making a deal, and the way he says it almost feels as if Trump is now convinced that Putin has already made up his mind not to β€œmake a deal”. He further claims that Russia’s economy is in ruins, and most notably, says that he would consider sanctioning or tariffing Russia:

This is the first time we’ve gotten confirmation straight from Trump himself, rather than Kellogg and the like, that he is in fact considering the β€˜nuclear option’ of playing β€˜hardball’ with Russia, should Putin refuse to bend the knee. And in fact, in a different interview he made it even more clear:

He’s asked plainly whether he’ll sanction Russia if Vladimir Putin doesn’t come to the negotiating table, and his response is: β€œThat sounds likely.”

Watch the videos in the above link to hear the words out of trump's mouth.

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Lawrence Beck's avatar

Suffering from neurodegenerative disorders from too many jabs, kathleen, or just another dichotomous mindset?

If you weren't part of the cult, you'd know that there were three candidates for President. It wasn't just trump vs biden, genius! Jill Stein was the only sensible candidate, unless you're one of the many who are too cowardly to stand for the only antiwar candidate because she wasn't part of the uniparty system.

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