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[–] [S] 118 points 5 hours ago (30 children)

In an un-fucking-believable move, the Americans stopped sharing intelligence and disabled Starlink’s military services, rendering Ukraine completely defenseless against Russian ballistic missiles just prior to a major attack.

This coming shortly after the US essentially negated its economic sanctions on Russian diesel and once again pressured Kyiv to unilaterally cease its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, even as Russia ramps up their own attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.

Trump is now publically aiding the Russians in their aggression against Ukraine and Europe

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  • [–] 64 points 5 hours ago (27 children)

    No, that’s a totally believable move. The American government are terrotists that have the American people held hostage. They will now do whatever they want regardless- and oftentimes to spite what the American people want.

    And no one is doing shit about it.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 hours ago (14 children)

    Thank you for not seeing an entire nation as the worst of their parts. I'm trapped in the basement, but I'm trying the best I can. Many people far better than I are doing the same.

    If the flame of love & peace dies, all is lost.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 hours ago* (13 children)

    Blaming all the people in a nation on the acts of a runaway government is ignorance on display. Just like how all of the Russian citizens don’t support Putin, just like all of Germany didn’t support hitler.

    People nowadays seem to have very little time for nuanced thought, and it’s just easier to all-or-nothing a situation because thinking can be hard sometimes.

    I’m with ya.

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  • [–] 3 points 50 minutes ago* (2 children)

    Bro, every time I try to mention nuance on the internet, I'm immediately the bad guy.

    Like I'm autistic as fuck, so I can be pretty rigid in the way I think, so I get, like, why people can be that way.

    But like on the internet its like half of everyone is just borderline personality about everything. Like it's fun to split people or some shit. Which hurts me to say, because BPD is... complex shit itself.

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  • [–] 3 points 46 minutes ago* (1 child)

    Same. And while my ASD can also make me pretty rigid, I also know that the world we live in exists almost entirely within the grey area that lies between the polarizing black and white that everyone cannot see past.

    And what bothers me the most about it is how rapidly it seems to be getting worse.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

    If I was a secret world ruling oligarch i’d want nations against each other

    otherwise they might notice me and all my bunkers

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    I have empathy, but I'm not perfect. I've said fuck Ruzzia & fuck Israel myself. It's hard not to, when you see what's happening...but we only see what they want us to see these days, in many ways. They only allow us to feel what we do because it plays into some sick narrative .. I've seen entire countries, cultures & religions blamed for injustices & atrocities, and now this burden has come back to haunt those who used it as a weapon. The people are simply hostages in an agenda that would drive you insane if you knew the truth of.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (4 children)

    We do it all the time. We hate all Russians because of Putin. We hate all Israelis because of Netanyahu. Why wouldn't the world hate all Americans because of Trump?

    Human nature.

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  • [–] 1 point 38 minutes ago

    I don't hate Russians because of Putin. I don't hate Isrealis because of Netanyahu.

    I hate Putin. I hate Netanyahu. I hate Trump. I hate Xi Jinping. I hate Lukenshenko. I hate Kim Jong Un. Dictators.

    I do hate people that believe they have superiority over anyone.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    American conservatives hate Ukraine because their media has trained them to do so.

    American conservatives have a greater affinity for Russian style domestic and foreign policy than they do with liberal democracy.

    This is what American conservatives want. They want conservative chauvinism to bowl over the "leftist, globalist" world order with violence and abuse.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 hours ago

    Most American Conservatives have no idea what Russian style policy is, or what life, even for “middle class” Russians is like.

    They are passive, lazy and infantile people that just go along with whatever their peers and their media diet (Fox News, Talk Radio, Facebook, and now mass media) spoon feeds them.

    The core of these people were always either racist or greedy or tolerant of racists for some other idiotic or bigoted reason.

    This is what happens when you have a society of overly “soft” and spoiled people. People that have basically never experienced hardship for 2, 3 or 4 generations.

    America happens to be the most powerful and most culturally dominant country right now, but this isn’t a special thing. It is human nature and America is just ahead of the curve.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 hours ago (7 children)

    2/3rds of the country endorsed this, or decided they were okay with it happening and did nothing to stop it.

    And no, im not calling it Stockholm Syndrome when that's total BS made up to cover for incompetent negotiators and hostage rescue.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

    Yep. MAGA, non-voters, and 3rd party voters opened this door.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

    3rd party voters are not the problem buddy, Capitalism is.

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  • [–] 57 points 5 hours ago*

    Trump is a traitor. He should be treated as such.

    I really hope the Ukrainians can continue winning the war without it.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    Trump betrays everyone but himself. Only someone delusional would think otherwise.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 hours ago

    The Portuguese ex-president said it years ago: Trump is a Russian asset.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 hours ago*

    Everyone is acting as if this hasn't been prepared for and doesn't have contingency. Still a betrayal, but an expected one by political and military leaders.

    Online commentators aren't the only people who are able to foresee this

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  • [–] 9 points 4 hours ago

    Days after they warned of Russia's growing satellite capabilities. Donald Trump should be tried and hanged for this shit.

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  • [–] 16 points 5 hours ago

    Maybe he feels betrayed because he was betrayed?

    And he's still not wearing a damn suit.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 hours ago

    America is cancer.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 hours ago

    dipshit trump betrayed mankind. And mankind betrayed themselves by letting him.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

    Did you expect them to treat you differently than all its other allies when supporting it isn't convenient anymore?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago

    That's probably because he was?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago

    Every new low I hope we've found the bottom

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago

    Trump feels that what is right for Trump is right for America. And though technically there is nothing wrong from a procedural point of view, he is completely stupid and does not understand that trust is a currency on the world stage and he just blew it all.

    I won’t even get into the fact that helping Russia, who is helping Iran, is directly damaging the US. Surely someone near him has connected those dots

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