Did anyone believe Trump could stop the war in a day? He is a champion bullshitter. He also seems to think of everything in terms of money, so Ukraine is a source of minerals and Gaza is a development opportunity. Does he talk much about the people?
Despite what he says Russia invaded Ukraine and he seems to be up for giving Putin whatever he wants. We need more fact checks.
Trump will talk about democracy and free speech, but his tactics are from the dictator playbook.
Trump has been saying Zelensky started it... he's repeated this lie a lot in the past week, and you know what? It worked.
It worked the same way Bush got the TSA to work to make airports a pain for perpetuity! Of course they showed us a bunch of 9/11 propaganda and news headlines and the guy gave speeches - But which of us normal people ever actually agreed with any of it??
I sure didn't!
As for this situation here, it is true that I saw Putin start it, so why must Trump lie?
Even more tragically, is that Putin started it just after Covid had made all of humanity to suffer. As if to mock the light of the sun, now that the plague had finally begun to subside, or at least sufficiently normalize.
To bring up physical conflict and violence makes a mockery of the idea of trying to save lives during a plague - What did we save them for? The meatgrinder??
But in this day and age, things take the twistiest of turns, considering the existence of ROBOT warfare - Drones and anything like it are things that I consider forbidden. Humans mustn't use robots to hurt each other!
That's a very bad precedent that I consider forbidden!
To me the only logical explanation as to why he has to lie about this is to justify the fact that Zelensky is not part of the conversation. Making him to be the bully, makes his absence a necessity.
It make sense if you think with a Machiavellian head.
Worked with who? Certainly not with most world leaders, but I have no idea what the US people see. I can guess what appears on Twtr and other propaganda channels.
All his lies need to be called out.
His base ate it all up, and is basically making Zelensky "the villain" of the story. Not to recommend anyone to take a peak at twatter, but... gosh
How big is his 'base'? Looking online can give a false impression. Less than half of the votes went to him on a turnout of 64%, so not as decisive as he may make out. Of those voters there will be a range of reasons for voting that way.
See the Guardian factcheck on actual amounts spent. Europe gave more than the US. That 'beautiful ocean' is no barrier to ICBMs.
I get that he's trying to massively cut spending to justify tax cuts, but this will massively change the balance of power in the world. The fall-out (not the nuclear kind) will hit a lot of Americans, including the MAGAs, but obviously not his rich friends.
The tax cuts proposed already benefit the 1% - the promise for no taxes on tips and overtime is notably absent from his proposed laws.