• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I never had the U.S. switching sides on my bingo card. I thought at most they would stop providing aid and support. Trumps policies were very isolationist in his first term.

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      2 months ago

      I never had the U.S. switching sides on my bingo card.

      I don’t know why anyone was caught flatfooted by this when it was clear to anyone paying attention that if Trump was elected, his plan to end the war was to hand control of Ukraine over to Russia.

      This was as obvious and predictable as the January 6th insurrection.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Wait, really?

      Dude holds a grudge like an absolute motherfucker, in addition to being a complete shitbag. He is vindictive as all fuck. The second the war started, my immediate reaction is “Putin is gonna drag this out till the election, and hope (read: influence the election so) that Trump wins”. Not to mention, officials in his first administration had to talk him down from leaving NATO multiple times, apparently. This whole thing was in the playbook from the get-go, imo.

      He’s isolationist (or “evangelical”, or “a hawk”, or what have you) so long as it serves his interests - and I mean specifically HIS interests. He is a malignant narcissist. He does not actually care about anyone outside of himself

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      2 months ago

      We don’t need to switch sides overtly for our hyena financiers and industry captains to make a buck trading with Russia, giving their war economy a sigh of relief which they desperately need.

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        2 months ago

        It’s idiotic Canada has a bigger economy than Russia, EU has many many times bigger economy than Russia.

        This is done for personal favors and it isn’t just hurting Ukraine it is fucking up US as well.