Ukraine, the next steps
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And then I just saw this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/us/politics/trump-putin-summit-papers-hotel.html
Trump Administration Minimizes Summit Papers Left in Hotel
"The papers, laying out the sequence of events and including the phone numbers of several officials, were found around 9 a.m. on Friday and sent to NPR by a guest of the hotel."What *&#$ idiots.
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Perhaps not a coincidence that Ukraine is publicly talking about building a new easy-to-manufacture cruise missile system with a 1 ton payload capable of striking targets 3000 km away.
The system isn't hypothetical. It's operational.
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Watching the so-called press conference with Zelenskyy and Trump.
Gawd, I'm so embarrassed by Trump. He's whining about how badly treated he is by the press. And when asked about the need for a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, he went off on a tangent talking about the six wars he's stopped in just six months, and how they never even considered a ceasefire in any of those.
I can't f***ing believe this guy. Biden on his worst days made more sense.
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His background in stand up comedy stands him in good stead.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may have traded his trademark olive drab for a sharp black suit at the White House on Monday, but he didn’t let a reporter off the hook for sticking to old habits.
“You look fabulous in that suit,” Brian Glenn of the right-wing outlet Real America’s Voice told the Ukrainian president during his meeting with Donald Trump. Glenn had earlier critised Zelensky over his wardrobe choices during a February White House session.
Trump quickly jumped in: “I said the same thing. Isn’t he the one who attacked you last time?”
Zelenskyy smiled and fired back with the line of the day: “I remember him. But you [looking at the reporter] are in the same suit. I changed mine.”
The exchange drew laughs.
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Trump got rolled.
No, our country got rolled.
Putin: Look! Squirrel!!
Trump's reponse:
President Trump said Monday he would renew his assault on mail-in voting after Russia’s autocratic leader, Vladimir Putin, told him to do so at their meeting in Alaska last week.
The president provided few details, but wrote on social media that he would “lead a movement to get rid of MAIL-IN BALLOTS, and also, while we’re at it, Highly ‘Inaccurate,’ Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES.”
Trump blamed his 2020 election loss to President Biden on a conspiracy of voter fraud. But independent analysts, state attorneys general and every court that reviewed the matter found no evidence of fraud that altered results in the race.
“Vladimir Putin said something — one of the most interesting things. He said, ‘Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting,’” Trump told Fox News in an interview.
https://archive.is/53Zu3#selection-2953.0-2961.174
My forehead is getting sore from all the facepalming...
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Short interview with Macron. He comments about what DJT said to him that was caught on a hot mic.
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I think Canada and the EU are going to have to take drastic action. If Putin is allowed to get away with this, Europe is next. The gasbag-in-chief is obviously completely useless. Quit including him in anything. Quit deferring to him. Pretend he doesn't exist and go save Ukraine. People have got to learn how to deal with narcissistic sociopaths. It's not by pandering to them.
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I didn't see this earlier. It's the full 20 minute interview with Macron.
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And yet I dislike your Vicepotus even more.
Not sure why tbh, he's an educated professional, served with the marines; but trad RC, opposed to abortion & gun control & same sex marriage.
It's easy to say Mr T is bloody awful because...
but I can't quite put my finger on my reason to dislike Mr V even more.I digress
Ukraine looks like becoming another Korea. West Ukraine & East Ukraine
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There would be historical precedent for it or at least historical explanation.
In any case, no regime change in Russia. It's Russia, FFS. Let's get a grip.
I'm not saying anything here wants it. It's what the neocons in both parties want.
The clowns entertained me and scared me as clowns are wont to do to us.
