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The White House has directed the State and Treasury Departments to draft a proposal for lifting some U.S. sanctions on Russia as part of Trump’s effort to restore ties and end the Ukraine war.

The proposal could ease restrictions on select Russian entities and oligarchs, though it’s unclear what the U.S. would receive in return.

Trump has signaled openness to sanctions relief despite previously threatening harsher measures.

Talks between U.S. and Russian officials have intensified, with economic cooperation, including rare earth minerals, emerging as a key topic.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Fight Canada, help Russia. How in the hell are Republicans just watching this happen? Cowards and frauds, all of them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 46 minutes ago (1 children)

As Trudeau said at the top of his speech yesterday:

So today the United States launched a trade war against Canada, their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they’re talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin, a lying, murderous dictator.

Make that make sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

I can help. Trump, the fascist wannabe dictator is putins bitch.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 minute ago

The White House has directed the State and Treasury Departments to draft a proposal for lifting some U.S. sanctions on Russia as part of Trump’s effort to restore ties and end the Ukraine war.

Yeah that's definitely the reason they're doing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

though it’s unclear what the U.S. would receive in return

Unclear to who? It seems to me that Trump wants to gain the favor of Putin. Why is this unclear? Is the Guardian too afraid to make this accusation? For someone like Trump that is always looking out for himself, it's unlikely he's doing this out of the kindness of his heart.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 35 minutes ago

4D chess right here, put economic stress on our allies, but try to help out our enemies.

If we dont know what we are doing, the enemy certainly cant anticipate our future actions!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Yall, the USA just lost the fucking Cold War.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 29 minutes ago

It's more subtle. Technically they won, but while they were winning, Russia was buying the power in US. Weird situation now where the winner becomes a vassal state of the loser...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago

Yeah it's kinda crazy that it basically just lived on in the hearts of Putin and his underlings. We moved on. He made it his mission. There's a lesson in there somewhere.

Also, he basically became the thing he hated to win. Killed us with capitalism. There's a story there.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Is he actually trying to crash the US economy on purpose? Or is he that detached from reality?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Krasnov Trump scammed his investors, loans and bankrupted his casinos. He is doing the same to US to enrich himself.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Trump got ties with russia...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 45 minutes ago

Ties that look a lot like puppet strings.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

I've commissioned an art piece of Trump sucking Putins dick. Will share when it's done.

[–] [email protected] 84 points 19 hours ago (18 children)

Russian agent doing the Russian agent things.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Does this mean Russia won the cold war

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

pretty much, they switches thier strategy to using propaganda and bribing since the 80s;.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

In the Americas, United States, and Canada:

-Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".

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