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White House directs officials to draft proposal to lift US sanctions on Russia
(www.theguardian.com)
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In Europe many leaders still claim USA is our most important ally. I wonder if they say it.hoping it will make it true, or if they really still believe it?
They're still in the first stage of grief.
With the number of nukes the US has, and the impulsiveness of people in charge, it might be safer to keep calling it an ally
We don't call Russia an ally just because they have nukes.
If USA lift sanctions on Russia, they are working against NATO interests, and against a world of law, and against democracy.
That cannot be an ally of Europe, and we shouldn't sugarcoat it.
Here in the UK people have been asking privately if Trump is a Russian asset. It is now being asked openly in the mainstream media.
He is and has been for decades, well before he became president the first time.
Seems to me very likely that he is, why else would he have such a hard-on for Russia?
Why else would he blurt so much bullshit about Ukraine being corrupt, and Zelenskyy a dictator? When we know Russia is very corrupt an a totalitarian country!
There are dozens of examples of similar bullshit comments by Trump, Musk and JD Vance. They are all in it, USA has been taken over by Russian and/or Chinese agents.
They say it because saying the truth (that they're an enemy of all democratic countries) is seen as too risky when they remain so intertwined with other countries worldwide. There are US military bases all over the world, for example.
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America is gross
America is stupid and selfish.
America is stupid and selfish.
The U.S. has been propagandized by the rich via corporate media consolidation (AKA Manufactured Consent) since at least the 1980s when the Fairness Doctrine was repealed by Reagan... earlier if you consider folks like JFK - who (as a member of a dynastically wealthy family) did things like drop the marginal tax rate from ~90% for the insanely richest people in the country to ~60% to start the tumble of budget shortfalls ultimately leading to the ease in which dishonest grifters are more easily able to convince the desperate and unheard to put their faith in demagogues offering them scapegoats in place of the actual culprits for their socioeconomic plight.
That is to say, that :
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IF America is stupid, it is the fault of the ultra-rich once again - as they did in the 1860s with railroad barons, and 80 years later in the 1920s with the industrial age robber barons, and again as they've done now with tech-bro barons - need to be reminded that peace is only achievable on a level playing field, wherein they pay their goddamn fair share of taxes to provide a stable, safe, clean, healthy society where our bountiful resources are not made artificially scarce for all but the very top of the wealthiest classes.
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IF America is selfish, it appears so only because those at the bottom are shown - by example of those at the top - that if they are selfish, they can "get ahead..." or at least "get by."
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It’s like that scene at the end of Training Day when the Russian mob comes to kill Denzel Washington but it’s America.
though it’s unclear what the U.S. would receive in return.
Trump already got what he wanted, what even is this statement?
Elon gets battery ingredients
Watch how many US companies immediately get right back in there, like flies on shit.
Lol, bending over for Russia when they've done absolutely nothing toward peace. Trump is such a big strong man.
IM FEELIN THAT GOOD OL SHERMAN BURN TO DO AWAY WITH SOME TRAITORS TO THE UNION
That sounds like a plan to me.
Does this need to go through congress?
I doubt that will make much of a difference what with both houses being controlled by the GOP.
The house's majority is slim enough that 2 defectors are all that's needed.
Zero faith in these bootlickers.
Only if Congress specifically passed the sanctions. Usually it's a bill that directs the president to sanction people fitting a description. Which effectively makes it a decision for the president.
I’ll keep saying it till we are all on the same page
Art of the deal: give Putin everything, let him finish in your mouth and ass. Get nothing in return!
BRUICS incoming?
CRIBSUS
Ronald Reagan is spinning in his grave.
It couldn't have been done without the groundwork he laid.
I didn't know people could spin from pure happiness. This can all be traced back to him, I bet the only thing he'd be mad about is that he couldn't be king too.
Suck those russian dicks!