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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 11 points 11 hours ago

China, DPRK ,and Russia joined forced and tipped the balance of power so hard gravity forced the US to come to their side. The three are looking forward ever into the future.

The US looks back in hindsight realizing they now have the least amount of leverage.

[-] theperfidiousOrbweaver@hexbear.net 15 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Anyone going to mention how wild it is that Iran isn't in this photo? Are they going to vietnam that suez canal sized elephant?

[-] Wheaties@hexbear.net 6 points 12 hours ago

I'd guess sometime in the first trump admin. Reverse google search suggests 2022 at the very earliest, but that doesn't have all the features it used to have. deAdder's website isn't much help either, there's not much in the gallery and it also fails to include publication dates. I do find this one pretty amusing, and its pretty well done

[-] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 37 points 16 hours ago

Despite all the bluster about him being pro-Russia, has Trump actually done anything meaningful different in terms of providing Ukraine aid? Seems like the war is going more or less the same as it was under Biden.

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 21 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

He stopped giving away military equipment directly to Ukraine for free. He now sells it to NATO who gives it to Ukraine for free, which has shifted a large portion of the cost of the war from the US to Europe. This was already the plan under Biden though as well, and had already begun under him. Europeans can get mad at Trump for shifting the cost of the war onto them, without being critical of the war itself. A great way to launder it by Trumpwashing the unpopular aspects like budget cuts to social services.

Look, we didn't want to cut your meemaws pension and healthcare but the Russians are invading and attacking Western Civilization, and also the evil dictator Trump (our ally btw) forced the costs onto us unfairly because he's a Russian puppet!

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 8 points 12 hours ago

I think there was a moment where he briefly relaxed some restrictions on purchasing Russian oil to minimize some immediate crisis related to the war on Iran. Libs were pretty worked up and acted like he had killed Zelensky.

[-] axont@hexbear.net 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I mean Biden had already started reducing the amount of munitions going to Ukraine largely so they could get sent to the Zionist entity instead.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 29 points 15 hours ago

He was mean to Zelensky for not wearing a suit that one time

[-] ItsPequod@hexbear.net 25 points 15 hours ago

I keep challenging Russiagaters on this and have yet to receive adequate response. Trump has set out these past three years to topple or subvert Russian allies and has successfully done so in Syria and Venezuela, is currently attacking Iran and Cuba, and Russia hasn't done much of anything to stop any of it despite supposedly being the puppeteer behind the curtains, and they can't explain how this helps Russia at all, conveniently it's all just benefiting the US agenda.

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 13 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Trump has no filter and let it be known that he personally likes strongman political leaders, and libs have no political analysis besides great man theory so they can't concieve of the president's personal feelings not moving the needle on the country's actual policies. If they admitted that Trump liking Putin didn't change anything significant about the country's foreign policy wrt Russia, they might be lead to question what systems are in place that actually drive American antagonism towards it and other countries.

[-] diamath@hexbear.net 5 points 11 hours ago

Now that's a truth bomb right there

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 27 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

He briefly halted the supply of some certain weapon over concern US stockpiles were running low

US halts weapons shipments to Ukraine over fears its stockpiles are too low https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/02/us-halts-ukraine-weapons-shipments article from july 2 2025

and resumed them about a week later

US has resumed military supplies to Ukraine, Zelensky says https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crl04200dp4o article from july 11 2025

Of course their were also brief halts in 'lethal aid' under the biden regime also https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/18/white-house-ukraine-military-lethal-weapons-495169

[-] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 26 points 15 hours ago

I was gonna say, outside of him bungling Iran, Trump's foreign policy has more or less been business as usual.

[-] Afaithfulnihilist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 15 hours ago

What's about Venezuela, NATO, Greenland, tariffs and .. you now all the wacky dumb shit he has done?

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 27 points 15 hours ago

Venezuela was US foreign policy business as usual. All the EU countries are still spending absurd amounts of money on “defense” like good little bootlickers.

[-] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 18 points 14 hours ago

He's not actually gonna invade Greenland.

Venezuela was like Iran in he's doing what the US imperialist machine was already doing but faster and dumber.

[-] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 19 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

What about them? Maduro was a socialist, do you think kidnapping him is something Xi and Kim(or most sovereign nations that aren't US vassals) would be in favour of? or that democratic politicians hadn't being calling for his removal for years?

Greenland he said some wacky shit, what did he actually do there? a few vassals may bark, but at the end of the day do you see them removing US bases and nuclear assets from their territory over the threat? Threatening to remove a few thousands troops from Germany you could argue is something(if it actually happens, seems like bluster at this point), but as long as NATO countries remain suzeraintes that allow US bases and any level of their troops to be stationed on their territory, and most importantly still allow the deployment of its nuclear umbrella then NATO maintains is structure with the US on top, and continues its main function: Keep China and Russia out, keep the Europeans in and down

And if you think Xi is for trumps tariffs when they have negatively China's trade and he's explicitly condemned them on the world stage multiple times, or that Putin is happy about the increased tariffs and sanctions trump as imposed on Russia then you need to seriously reorient your geopolitical thinking

[-] BoarAvoir@hexbear.net 19 points 14 hours ago

It's accurate, in that China has the most leverage

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 48 points 18 hours ago

Trump ebil doctator liek bad guy countries. You're supposed to look at this and smugly laugh about how correct you are all the time as a liberal and how much of a fool Trump is for falling for the empty flattery of these silver tongued foreigners.

[-] diamath@hexbear.net 29 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

But why a see-saw? That implies some sort of balance that got shifted right? The world was in balance before Trump switched sides? Like if Putin and Xi and Kim Jong Un were gone then the balance would again be off?

[-] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 30 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

The more you think about it the less it works. A see-saw is collaborative, if one side just stops cooperating the see-saw stops. And when a see-saw is in motion each side goes up and down opposite the other, which could be interpreted as Amerika being "on top" and then Russia/China/DPRK being "on top", which I presume the author wouldn't want (just a Trump-less amerika being "on top"). And if on side is supposed to always be up, that requires the other side to keep it down: cooperation.

It just doesn't fucking work.


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[-] diamath@hexbear.net 4 points 11 hours ago

You're right! There's layers to this nonsense

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 30 points 18 hours ago

I think the author doesn't know how see saws work and thinks both sides are supposed to be balanced like scales or something, but they used a set of scales in their comic depicting this same idea last week so they have to do something new.

[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 23 points 16 hours ago

But what if Kamala had won? Would she have been fat enough to balance out Putin, Kim and Xi?

[-] D61@hexbear.net 25 points 16 hours ago

Cartoonist had a deadline and their kid kept talking about wanting to go to the park and play on the see-saw.

[-] cattish@hexbear.net 42 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Something something trump is an anti-american russian spy who allies with the wretched enemies of the free world international-community-1international-community-2

[-] BettercallMao@hexbear.net 29 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Trump literally has a department of war and is explicitly against socialists, communists in US and its colonies

[-] InexplicableLunchFiend@hexbear.net 18 points 16 hours ago
[-] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 18 points 17 hours ago

hallucinated baby brain takes cooked up while drowning in six inches of neoliberal bathwater.

like i sort of glimpsed a vibe (a pro-ukronazi one) for this until i saw Xi/China in the mix.

i guess its meant to be US vs "Asian countries that resist our righteous hegemony" like some kind of 2-sides Cold War brainworm, except the metaphor of the sea saw doesn't work.

this is one of those political cartoons where the cartoonist just wanted to draw political leaders on a playground, but lacks the competence to make it a coherent critique.

[-] Florn@hexbear.net 16 points 17 hours ago

Clearly, this is a JDPON Don joke

[-] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 18 hours ago

Not that hard to understand... The US have pretty much switched sides by now, I would say...

[-] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 11 points 14 hours ago

I fucking wish

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 36 points 17 hours ago

Which is why we checks notes continue to provide funding and arms to Ukraine and sanction Russia?

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 43 points 18 hours ago

Switched? Sides?

What videogame-ass world do you live in?

[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 28 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Peter Molyneux's Black and White.

[-] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 22 points 17 hours ago

Is that why i keep getring picked up and thrown down a hill?

[-] miz@hexbear.net 22 points 16 hours ago

fascinating. in your mind which side of the seesaw is Netanyahu on?

[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 23 points 16 hours ago

In what world is Trump an ally of China? He personally likes Xi, but he's economically targeted China over and over and fearmongers about them and so on.

[-] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 43 points 18 hours ago
[-] RedWizard@hexbear.net 22 points 17 hours ago

Damn this thing is HOT, don't burn your hand.

[-] diamath@hexbear.net 40 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

The US is siding with China, Russia and the DPRK?? And this upsets Putin why?

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 24 points 17 hours ago

You know how they say we’re now living in a multi-polar world? Yeah , that means the various powers act in their own interests, which sometimes aligns with other countries, sometimes doesn’t, but fundamentally means there’s no singular “other side” out there.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 25 points 17 hours ago

Actually it's all just good vs evil and the way you tell them apart is us-foreign-policy

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 6 points 13 hours ago

Genuinely braindead take, I honestly don't know how you qualify as sentient

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 2 points 5 hours ago

Or in other words, your average G*rman.

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