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Vance calls end of Ukraine aid 'one of the proudest' achievements of Trump administration (kyivindependent.com)

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U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on April 14 that he is proud of Washington cutting off funding to Ukraine amid Russian aggression, listing it among the Trump administration's top achievements.

Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Athens, Georgia, Vance recalled being confronted by a Ukrainian-American over his calls to halt funding for Ukraine.

"And this person got really agitated at me because I was saying we should stop funding the Ukraine war," Vance said.

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[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 136 points 6 months ago

Hey R voters and sitouts: proud yet?

[-] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 83 points 6 months ago

But they had to sit out the election because of Palestine!

Not that they care that Trump just lifted all restrictions on Bibi in Gaza, the morally important thing is to teach Harris a lesson!

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 42 points 6 months ago

And signal their inability to tell between different levels of evil, or to see things beyond a 14-day timeframe, apparently.

[-] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 13 points 6 months ago

They don't want to understand that harris was the lesser evil from where to start something new. But they are also coward enough to not admit that by not voting, they put pedohitler and harris at the same level.

They won't ever admit it because they know it means that they couldn't see anything worse on the child rapist than in harris. In the end, for them, raping children and supporting israhell not worse than just supporting israhell, meaning that for them, raping children is not something to consider when voting for a president.

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago

There's the child-raping, and then there's the whole barreling towards a cyberpunk hellhole that Trump and the heritage foundation are engineering. This doesn't seem like a difficult choice to make, I honestly can't understand these people.

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[-] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 17 points 6 months ago

I gave up trying to explain to the sitouts why they did wrong. But they refuse to understand even the most basic concept of the lesser evil. All you hear when you discuss with them is "lib", "libtard", some basic insults and a fixed set of "reasons" why they couldn't get to vote for harris and why it's not their fault at all that pedohitler is president.

They are just cowards who refuse to admit they fucked up greatly. It's always someone else's fault with them.

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[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 99 points 6 months ago

Alternate headline: "Being a Bitch to Russia one of the Proudest Achievements of Trump "Administration"."

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[-] iMastari@lemmy.world 85 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

History Lesson: Why all countries need to band together and help Ukraine

The USSR, which was known as the Soviet Union and was a communist government, used to have many countries under their umbrella of control, including Ukraine.

When the Berlin Wall fell in the early 90's Russia dropped the communist part of their government and became the Russian Federation. They gave all the countries under their umbrella autonomy. So more or less, the Russian Federation was no longer in control of all these countries.

Putin is the current President of Russia. He has held this position since 2012, after previously serving as President from 2000 to 2008 and as Prime Minister from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012.

Putin has expressed a desire to restore the glory of the Soviet Union, which is a key part of his domestic and foreign policy goals. He aims to regain Russia's influence in world affairs and strengthen its position against perceived threats, particularly from NATO. (https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26769481)

If Putin regains control of Ukraine, he will move on to the next country, then the next country, until Russia's old glory is restored.

This must not happen.

[-] rayyy@piefed.social 15 points 6 months ago

Ukraine is doing quite well as the premier drone developer. So much so, that countries all over the world now seek their weapons. Their newest drone development is nothing short of awesome.

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[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 74 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Knowing that Ukraine gave up its nukes in exchange for permanent protection from the US, I can understand the "agitation". I'd be pissed.

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[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 68 points 6 months ago

Never seen someone so proud of themselves for fucking couches and killing children. Have you said thank you yet?

[-] 8oow3291d@feddit.dk 26 points 6 months ago

Nothing gives Vance a hard-on like abandoning his allies while they are being genocided. Hide your sofas, save your cushions.

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[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 6 months ago

It was a free event and only like 100 people showed up and many of them heckled him repeatedly.

[-] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

He still said it. I don't care if he said it to a group of clowns at a birthday party, the Vice President of the USA just admitted publicaly that he's happy civilians in Ukraine are dying because they reneged on an international promise.

This is 100% why I hope no country, no matter what happens in the coming decade or more, ever gives the USA an ounce of trust ever again. A century of good will, ally-ship, and negotiation completely pissed away in less than a year. Why should ANY of us ever trust the USA to hold up any ounce of promise ever again?

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 45 points 6 months ago

Just Dumb and the MAGA fucks continue to break the 1994 Budapest Agreement. If the USA requests you to get rid of your nuclear insurance policy, tell them to f-off.

[-] 73ms@sopuli.xyz 15 points 6 months ago

they're not really breaking Budapest memorandum (not that they wouldn't break any treaty in a heartbeat) because it did not say the other signatories would have to defend Ukraine from anyone else. It's still a bad precedent for nuclear disarmament of course but then again the Trump administration has done every fucking thing they can to make literally every country in the world want nuclear weapons now because they've completely broken the old order where countries had at least some faith in USA mostly upholding and abiding by international law and supporting their supposed allies.

[-] Jaybird@lemmy.world 43 points 6 months ago

But by all means, demand help in Iran...

[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 43 points 6 months ago

Athens, Georgia

My European brain just confused the fuck out of me.

[-] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"Athens" is such a popular name for small towns in the US that New York state has two places named "Athens."

"Wow that's dumb," you say. And sure sure, you've got a point.

But what will you say when you find out Pennsylvania has three?

"Jesus H. Christ, that's idiotic," you say. And I can't argue.

But you will be rendered speechless by the news that my own state of Ohio has four localities named "Athens."

...if you don't count the one named "New Athens."

I'm not making this up.

[-] village604@adultswim.fan 11 points 6 months ago

Don't look at Texas cities.

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[-] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 36 points 6 months ago

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[-] MartianRecon@lemmus.org 23 points 6 months ago

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[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Their entire cabal should suffer the same way that We The People suffer under their rule.

Incarcerate them as common federal criminals.

Strip them of their material assets and mark them as sex offenders and ex cons. Then release them into our world: Where they have to use "marketplace" insurance that charges an arm and a leg but covers a pinky toe.

They can try to apply for loans with abysmal credit and a shitton of debt that keeps compounding because they can't pay off that debt.

Regardless of political following, the entire country knows or would find out quickly what terrible workers they would be at any real job, so they would need to apply and get ghosted endlessly to even begin to mount the steps to approach the class ladder they and their ilk constructed.

If they do get that job somehow. They get to enjoy clocking in and out every day, exhausted and abused, knowing the only influence they'll ever again exert is suggesting the taco value deal over the burger meal, or the brown purse over the black one. That every single day of this isn't getting them any closer to a brighter future or a way out of the cycle.

They'll go to their public libraries they fervently cried to defund, and they'll ask for help, but be kicked out by security after screaming about immigrants and bathrooms.

They'll be forced to use our crumbling, car-worshipping infrastructure after jumping through tons of hoops to validate their identification and get a driver's license and maybe even a "Real for really reals tho" ID if they ever want to board a plane. (But with today's airfare haha that's unlikely!)

See how far those bootstraps get them.

If a traffic accident, the healthcare system, garbage food, or gun violence doesn't do them in, they'll live out and die as they falsely professed themselves to be:

...Actual Americans like you and me.

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[-] SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 19 points 6 months ago

I would rather him die of old age alone in a prison cell in The Hague.

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[-] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

We should stop funding Israel in return. Let Washington pay for its country-sized military base, we have more pressing and deserving issues at home.

https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2025/000005_en

[-] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 months ago

Well I'd call the end of The Trump administration one of the proudest moments for America

[-] Sunflier@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago

You'd have thought that after Trump 1, but here we are.

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[-] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

It's amazing that Vance can use so many words to say so little. If he wasn't so full of shit I'd say he's totally vacuous.

[-] gdtf@lemmy.ml 21 points 6 months ago

Couch fucker piece of shit

[-] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

Well ... Vance is a complete dildo.

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[-] Lanske@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

What a vile cunt

[-] tirateimas@lemmy.pt 15 points 6 months ago

Europe's help is coming; Ukraine should use it to buy non-US equipment.

For Vance and Trump, perhaps they will end up alone and isolated. That “great” thing they pride themselves on might be fading away.

The world has changed; their world has changed.

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Fuck off vance, go check in with your momma I hear she is selling your couch for a bag of Ajax cleaner to snort.

[-] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 6 months ago

sofa-humping GOP surrender monkey

[-] Akh@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago

Good thing they held out long enough to see Hungry outs big O and have the EU fund them.

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[-] REDACTED@infosec.pub 13 points 6 months ago

You gotta do some serious mental gymnastics to present helping enemies as achievement

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[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Bro can you believe we have 2 more years of this shit at least?? I say at least cuz even if trump fails at trying to run for a 3rd term I have such little confidence in dems. I've heard Kamala might try to run again X_X

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[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I’m glad shitban is out of Hungary so the EU is not hindered by that piece of shit and it’s all thanks to the couch fucker JD Vance. He killed a pope and Orban’s political career.

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