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Good news everyone, wars over! (/s)

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[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Like I get the whole shitting on Trump thing. But it gives me a bit of hope he isn't just cutting Ukraine off or trying to force them to capitulate.

Could even argue he might handle this better than Biden...

Putin must be very weak right now to have his (former?) lapdog potentially turn on him.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

I hate that I’m doing this but here’s the link to his announcement on truth social. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113872782548137314

He spends 2/3rd of the post sucking up to Putin.

I really really heavily doubt he will overperform Biden on this.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 5 points 7 hours ago

Ok I read it.

Here’s my take.

This is a set up. Putin now has to say “ok, ok, we’ll make a deal!”

Then he says he’ll end the operation in Ukraine but only if they retain taken territory.

Then Trump gets to say that’s reasonable, and Zelenskyy becomes the disagreeable one for saying no.

Trump then turns on Zelenskyy.

I give it 3 months before this chain of events becomes reality.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Given the use of the word settle, I am concerned it means Russia can promise to stop with only half of Ukraine and Trump will turn that into a victory and blame Ukraine for being unreasonable...

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 5 points 7 hours ago

That is what will happen.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 12 hours ago

dude just multiplied Russia's WW2 casualties number by 10x lol

60M?

Highest figures for Russia+ukraine+others combined is 27M!

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago

Ugh, fair enough