• xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
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    2 days ago

    Hang on now. Did… Did Trump just say a thing that makes sense? He really is dying, isn’t he?

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      He wants Europe to buy American instead. Given the situation that is indeed reasonable, but the real solution is to go green. That he hates though.

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            Because entities Trump likes to please say that they are a hoax.

            Those entities include at least several companies of the oil industry, predominantly in USA. Then obviously the Russian Federation. Or actually Putin,not necessarily the Russia?

            Calling green alternatives a hoax might also be one of the services that earned Trump that fancy huge jet plane.

            Then there’s the share of US residents that see green alternatives as project to deprive them of comfort of life. They are more loyal, and therefore less likely to rebel, if they hear someone call green alternatives a hoax.

            And Trump himself is one of the people who consider a need to change the everyday life a personal threat. That probably plays a role as well?

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          He does not need to. He just does as his handlers command and they are from the US oil and gas industry.

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    I’ve also been working relentlessly stopping the killing in Ukraine. I thought that would be, of the seven wars that I stopped, I thought that would be the easiest because of my relationship with President Putin, which had always been a good one. I thought that was going to be the easiest one. But in war, you never know what’s going to happen. There are always lots of surprises, both good and bad. Everyone thought Russia would win this war in three days, but it didn’t work out that way. It was supposed to be just a quick little skirmish. It’s not making Russia look good, it’s making them look bad.

    No matter what happens from here on out, this was something that should have taken a matter of days, certainly less than a week, and they’ve been fighting for three and a half years and killing anywhere from 5 to 7,000, young soldiers, mostly, mostly soldiers on both sides, every single week from 5 to 7,000 dead young people. And some in cities, much smaller numbers where rockets are shot, where drones are dropped. This war would never have started if I were president.

    This part of his speech sounded like „yeah, Russia should just have done this more efficiently“, or is it just me?

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      Sounds like Putin was supposed to come over and just take Zelensky place or something. Also war is like a fairy tail for him. Doesn’t think about all the people killed, tortured, raped or the thousands of children kidnapped nad brainwashed or all the destruction and the time it will take to rebuild. Dude is a piece of shit rapist. Can’t wait for him to die.

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        I actually can.

        The thing is, Vance is the same but without being a complete fecking moron. And if Trump dies, Vance will be POTUS. The same will continue, but in a way that is consequent. And horrible for the west.

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      Correct. putin sold this line to many, who kept/keep repeating it eagerly - no doubt because they are incentivised to. Also: putin represents the worldview that might makes right, and many rich and “powerful” aspire to this. It is an insult to their worldview and therefore their personal egos that putin has failed to conquer Ukraine.

      It is interesting to see trump realigning…