BREAKING: Trump halts military aid to Ukraine, media reports

For the millionth time: the results are out. The fraction of dem voters who stayed home because of the Gaza genocide isn't high enough to warrant the loss. Stop blaming the people who stood the strongest against genocide.

>Not even like legit access for US companies, but like they do for oligarchs in Russia

Our legitimate mining corporations, their evil oligarchic resource exploiters

Mineral access after Ukraine falls. Not even like legit access for US companies, but like they do for oligarchs in Russia. Also now they might let him be the one to take out Zelensky to get back at him for not being grateful enough.

Yes, there was no peace for quite some time. They were indeed at war with separatist militias in Eastern Ukraine financed by Putin. The difference is just that in 2022 Putin got into the war openly. Well, openly, it was a "special military operation" at first, of course.

>the peaceful state it was in

Was it though? Wasn't the Ukrainian government at war with separatist militias in Eastern Ukraine prior to 2022?

Not justified, but the western version of the event is extremely falsified. Hakim has a good video on the topic.

>My point is that the US has not been willing to escalate by using live rounds

Police violence aside

So the military was justified in their actions at tiananmen square?

My point is that the US has not been willing to escalate by using live rounds or military intervention in over half a century (at least to my recollection) against its citizens.

Kent state happened as a massacre against unarmed students. Tiananmen Square happened after several weeks of protests, in which protestors murdered and burned some soldiers and took their weapons. Only then did the military intervene.

I mean... I lived close to Tulsa and learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre years later through NPR.

Oh, right, Trump's trying to get rid of woke stuff like that.

>Not talked about, but I can talk about

Freedom to speak, not to be heard. Good luck saying those things on TV and ever being invited again. Good luck talking about these issues in a book and getting it published.

I think the counterpoint is that when something like Kent state happened, the government backed down. The question will be if they're willing to use live rounds in the future and not back down (not that less lethal munitions are much better, but it is different).

Not talked about, but I *can* talk about the Tulsa Race Massacre and the Ludlow Massacre without retribution from the US. I am able to.

I'm concerned when the US military is given full "The people are the enemy" attitude and to protest it becomes illegal.

The US already bombed black neighbourhoods and murdered unionists, and the police kills "nonwhite" people at astonishing rates, it's just those things aren't talked about in the US at all.

I've been wondering where the US Tiananmen Square is going to be.

Might want to wait till the fort Knox audit. Might turn out the gold you buy doesn't exist :p

Gold it is then

If the stock market crashes and doesn't recover, that money will be worthless regardless of where you store it.

In that specific match up the F-35 would win the majority of the time. The Rafale would win when it was able to get inside the F-35's missiles. The problem is a modern fighter versus fighter engagement starts with long range missiles launches. So the side that sees first launches first. Then they go into tight S turns to keep radar tracking on their missiles while maintaining range. At some point the enemy also acquires them on radar and does the same thing. They will keep doing this until the enemy missiles reach a minimum distance and they will dive and turn away with chaff. This breaks the radar link but you're hoping the missiles are close enough to acquire targets on their own. So the side that sees the other one first and launches first, even by a few seconds gains a massive advantage. That's what stealth tech is about.

Now that said, there is a Euro stealth fighter in the works, but it's not expected until 2040.

>Oh sorry, your supporting Ukraine, so they can continue the killing. What a moronic route.

Nah, I'm supporting Ukraine to defend their sovereignty. The killing can stop, russia needs to fuck back off to russia

Ceeding the land to russia won't stop any war, at best it will put a temporary pause until they want more, causing more pain and suffering and death.

Make russia fuck back off to russia is the only viable option, unless you think appeasing fascist dictators is a good idea.

>Brain-dead.

That is the only explanation as to why you said the things to say. Hey being self aware is step one. Maybe don't victim blame.

Oh sorry, your supporting Ukraine, so they can continue the killing. What a moronic route.

So just continue with the killing.

That's not doing anything differently.

Succeeding land will stop the war.

Make Russia sign a peace treaty with America and Ukraine for the land.

It's infinitely better than your idea of just continue the killing. "It's fine"

Brain-dead.

>It's better to try something. What your idea is to do nothing. Great idea, let's just continue letting people die.

No, my idea isn't to "do nothing". It's to fund and support Ukrainian sovereignty lol. No clue where the fuck you are pulling that from. You want more people to die, let russia have it's way, way more people will die. I'm glad your comfortable with the thought of other countries just annexing territory on a whim. Fucking shit tier take

It's better to try something. What your idea is to do nothing. Great idea, let's just continue letting people die.

Russia will keep killing Ukrainians, so they need be forced to stop. Letting russia next it's neighbours is a fucking stupid take. Appeasing the colonial fascist has never gone well before, and it won't now. Ukrainians are fighting for their homes. Succeeding land like Crimea didn't stop russia from invading so it won't stop it again.

Right then why fund them and send people to their deaths?

Why not just succeed a little land and sign a cease fire

Guess what. War is gonna happen regardless. Except now the Ukrainians are going to have a harder time fighting back, while the russians start their pogroms.

Gaza and Ukraine are 2 totally different cases, using one to assess the other makes no sense. In Gaza, under Biden, they barely announced they would hold on deliveries to Israel, and they did to a bare minimum. There was no secret hidden delivery, it was in plain sight for all to see. One of the reasons is some high profile donors of the Dems are supporting Netanyahu.

Under Trump, the position has changed for a full support of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and they resumed the delivery of larger bombs, that Biden had indeed been withholding.

The US collect intelligence in many different places worldwide. They didn't say they would stop collecting intelligence, they said they would stop sharing it with Ukraine. The goal is not hidden, it's been announced and the acts are consistent: it's to force Zelensky to surrender to Russia, what Trump calls a "peace plan" in exchange of… well nothing, really. Ukraine loses, as simple as that.

There is no secret chess play here. If you ask why Trump supports Russia against pretty much all of the US (former?) allies now, then we venture into speculation, though many of us have an idea. But is he supporting Russia? Yes, definitely, the evidences are compelling. That's no longer a question. It's more than time to accept it.

How many times US government announced they were working to stop the genocide in gaza but were actually fueling it?

But they got some planes flying over the black sea

They have been flying fleets of planes near russia since the war started, probably even before that but not many were watching.

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Ok, let's make sense out of this

• The US gov announced very officially they stopped providing military aid to Ukraine.

• The US gov announced very officially they stop provivding intelligence to Ukraine.

• Trump asked very openly for a draft on lifting sanctions on Russia.

But they got some planes flying over the black sea, that collect intel, the same intel they said won't be shared with Ukraine therefore will not be used against Russia interests whatsoever, and that's your evidence to claim their actions are ambiguous?

I was wrong. They CAN supply Russia with weapons and you'll claim it's still ambiguous. Actually, they can probably bomb Ukraine themselves as much as a certain individual can shoot someone on the 5th avenue without losing a single supporter.-

https://www.itamilradar.com/2025/03/05/aerial-surveillance-operations-intense-activity-in-the-skies-of-romania-and-the-black-sea/

To me it looks like they didn't stop shit

They ARE halting operations against Russia. Factual and official.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/02/politics/us-cyber-operations-russia-suspend/index.html

And now, after stopping military aid, they've announced they would no longer provide Ukraine with intel. So these patrol are no longer an action against Russia, given they won't be used in military operations. Another big win for Russia. Again factual and official.

Next step is apparently lifting sanctions against Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-seeks-plan-possible-russia-sanctions-relief-sources-say-2025-03-03/

This would provide Russia with a desperately needed source of income while economists were speculating that its economy was at risk of a complete collapse in 2025. So Trump is hurrying a relief there.

Do they need to send military aid to Russia directly before we can claim they switched side?

At best they won't share, at worst it's for russia

How do we know they were for ukraine to begin with? One thing is clear: they aren't for russia so the narrative that USA is helping russia or halting operations against them doesn't old much against the evidence.

Who says those SIGNT flights are for Ukraine anymore?

I'm sure it was *meant* as sarcasm, but it's obviously true.

The important thing is we remember that every bad thing that happens is Democrats' fault

Democrats have no more interest in safeguarding democracy than Republicans do. If they did, they wouldn't continue using their ratchet effect that prevents Republican legislation from ever slipping back. And as Republicans keep shifting even further to the right, democrats continue to fill the void that Republicans just left. This is a result of 50 years of incremental fascism masquerading as 'lesser evil.'

the democrats did nothing in their time to safe guard democracy, hoping to wield fascism as a threat to motivate us to vote for their 2000-2008 era conservatism. it was an extremely dangerous game, and one they lost, because they failed to account for how fucking racist and unhinged one third of this country is. the consequence of them being fine with using fascism as a threat against us is that they are also fine with fascism being used against us. they'll just go along with the fascist coup so long as it's apparently what we want

I think a lot of the problems with the current administration wouldn't change if Trump was Luigied. Dismantling our federal institutions, consolidating power in the executive branch, stripping away human rights - all those things would continue.

However, I think that the support for Putin nearly exclusively comes from Trump himself.

Let's be very clear, it's not just Trump, but the ENTIRE GOD DAMN administration that has been, and is, being put into place. Hegseth already told our intelligence teams to stop looking into Russia.

If Trump was luigied tomorrow, an entire government is now in place to allow whatever they want to happen, to happen. It wouldn't even matter if he was gone.

Does it matter at all? Trump is compromised and is actively working for Putin. This is transparent and not being denied. Is there precedent for a puppet to do whatever he's told by his master? Yes, lots.

Palestine. Maybe not successfully, but note that the idea that Palestinians have the same natural right to armed self defense as any other group is completely absent from mainstream political discourse. Most simply cannot even comprehend that the Palestinians should have just as much right to kill to defend themselves as Israelis do. Partly this is due to colonialism. Part of it is classism. The violence of the Israelis is clean and high tech. The violence of the Palestinians is crude and performed with simple weapons. We judge the morality of violence based upon the wealth of the people committing the violence.

Economic sanctions on the early RSFSR after the Bolsheviks defeated the English, French, Italian, USA coalition that invaded them in the Russian Civil War.

Build up the EU military. Kick the US out. Free airbases.

At some point, Europe has to start wondering whether it's really such a good thing to have US military bases all over their continent.

So they don't formally exist and the entire political game is just about whether you choose the good or the bad representatives, and all knowledge and legislation about institutions is liable to be simply ignored without penalty

Checks and balances are only are good as the morals of the people enforcing them.

I'd say the average republican *does* have a solid grasp of how the government works, seeing the extremely high activity of Trump's government. Turns out the "checks and balances" and the "branches of government" and all of that shit only serves to slow down progressive policy. When it's about bombing brown kids or defending healthcare, policy can speed through the fucking system

The average us citizen doesn’t have a solid grasps of how our government actually works.

Defunding education and gutting curriculum and removing civics education has … been impactful.

This just proves that american gloating over their "checks and balances" was bullshit all along. US will never live this down.

Thnx for your reply! i understand that, but it seems nothing goes via congress?!

So it turns out that what matters most in the end is less the intricacies of the system, and more what type of people get elected

That's a lot of words to say that I'm right in practice even if not in principle lmao.

I'm a commie too, BTW. You're way too charitable to the US institutions IMO.

This isn't quite right. Trump didn't really modify laws. That isn't even something he can claim to do since he is the head of the Executive branch, not the Legislative one. He issued executive orders, many of which were illegal, and he had some cronies who enacted some of them anyway - others did not enact some of these, and others were not really actionable (like when he declared that no one has a gender). He did rescind many *policies*, but he can't just make laws go away on his own. There are literally hundreds of court cases currently challenging these executive orders - seeing as how the judiciary is the primary check on the executive branch, that is the system working to check presidential power.

However, I am not a liberal, I am a socialist and do not think this is working well - there are many problems here. The highest levels of the judiciary have been largely captured by far-right judges, many of whom are specifically aligned with Trump's goals and support the unitary executive theory. Also, this method of checking presidential power is extremely slow. For every illegal action Trump's administration takes, a court case has to be crafted, filed, heard, and adjudicated. Every one. And invariably, some will not reach the correct outcome and others will never actually be taken to court - there are just too many.

Basically, the administration is using the fact that they control every branch of government to dismantle or capture core government agencies and to provide cover for various illegal actions - forcing them through if only temporarily for various political and structural ends. A soft coup, basically. So yeah, the fact that something like this is possible is proof of the flaws inherent in this system of government.

>The answer is simpler than that: the “checks and balances” system is a facade created to prevent meaningful progressive policy from passing.

Checks and Balances always work in favor of the more evil side.

The "Good Guys" would respect the checks of balances, making it harder to enact good policies. The "Bad Guys" would just ignore all this, and just use executive orders for everything, as we can see this administration doing right now.

Checks and Balances can only prevent corrupt *individuals*, it prevents *one* branch from becoming evil, not an entire party that has taken over all 3 branches of government, and working together to destroy democracy.

The answer is simpler than that: the "checks and balances" system is a facade created to prevent meaningful progressive policy from passing. There's a reason why Trump can modify a billion laws from day 1, but poor Biden couldn't possibly do anything to codify abortion as a right or prevent the bombing of children in Gaza.

Wow! Thanks so much for this reply! this is very helpful, thnx a lot

It's very illegal. He has already been impeached once for withdrawing military aid to Ukraine in his first term.

And you see where that got us.

how is Trump so powerful?

The Republican party controls Congress and they have abdicated their responsibilities to our Constitution and, by extension, the American people in favor of an authoritarian because they have accepted him as their leader, thus giving away their own power.

Our forefathers never expected Congress to give away its own power. Because it doesn't really make any sense in the long term for them to do so.

We are experiencing a coup. Most Americans are too uneducated to understand this.

Republicans hold the majority in congress, so they're refusing to push back and are just allowing him to usurp power from them.

It isn't daft. The Republicans since Reagan have pushed a fringe legal theory called the Unitary Executive Theory. Basically, they want the president to *fully* control the executive branch and military such that theirs is the only voice that matters for much of the government. Not unlike a king, but partially checked by congress and the courts. They have been taking (illegal) actions to try to get sued, and also have been suing others/other branches of government, to try to get the Supreme Court to hear cases that will support this fringe legal theory so that it becomes the law of the land.

I am not a lawyer, but this is possibly something Trump can legally do since he is Commander in Chief of the armed forces. However, this seems more like an apportionment thing, which is Congress' responsibility. Congress has allocated funds to send military aid to Ukraine. So, even if Trump as Commander in Chief could say "no more weapons to ukraine", it seems doubtful to me that he could (legally) stop weapons shipments currently en route.

But, by the time whatever government office sues the office of the president to get a judge to enjoin them to send the agreed upon weapons that were already apportioned, it will already have hurt Ukraine somewhat. Trump often weaponizes inefficiency. And these sort of illegal acts aren't crimes per se - they're just procedural breaches - the legal remedy is just to reverse the action.

So, probably not legal. But Trump gets to weaponize his administration's incompetence (or feigned incompetence) to at least delay aid. More competent people may support these actions, knowing they're illegal, to try and strengthen the president's role even further.

It is for Congress to decide such matters. It says so right in our constitution, but our Legislative branch has been ceding their ability to check Executive overreach for decades. Now, with a complicit Congress as the majority, they will never challenge Trump on anything he does, no matter how unconstitutional or illegal it might be. Same goes for the Judiciary as well, chock full of partisan hacks who bend and twist their interpretation of the language of the constitution to cherry pick a favorable ruling for anything that Trump does.

Basically, our system of checks and balances that are meant to keep one aspect of the government from becoming too powerful has been completely subsumed by ideologues who prefer monarchy to democracy. The executive now essentially has unchecked authority and is in full control of the government apparatus.

The only remedy for abuse of power is impeachment, and that requires 50% +1 of the House of Representatives and 2/3 of the Senate. No president was ever convicted of impeachment charges. Democracy was only upheld by "norms and traditions" and with trump's disrespect for that, this is where we are... Checks and Balances only works against a corrupt *individual*, doesn't work against an entire party working together to destroy democracy.

These people cannot stand reason and logic, that's why you're getting downvoted.

If no one engages with the troll it with the troll it will get bored and leave.

How is one a traitor to democracy for opposing unlimited funding and supplying of Ukraine?

US is broke, have u seen the debt numbers?

It went into unontrollable territory.

Payments for debt financing alone is as much as military spending.

This is dumb.

US has no choice but to radically change

I feel like the dumb from reddit is leaking into lemmy more and more. You're a traitor to democracy if you think we shouldn't fund and supply Ukraine

Whats the strategy?

See, there is a strategy - u just tunnelvisioned and stuck in a cold war

Given how big a security leak the dipshit is, and he already got a ton of their agents in the field killed the first time around, it's not so much them caring about the US, but then seeing a threat to their own power.

Dictators fear military coups, that's why people like Putin keeps them weak and fighting themselves

Trump treats white people like Obama treated Arabs.

Except that whole thing about Dems being just as bad, which is like 90% of tankie arguments about the US.

You wish the US to be a genocidal empire? *poof* nothing's changed

I'm pretty sure Trump has proven every single tankie argument about the US.

It's funny how much the tankies have in common with the liberal socialists. If only they weren't so darn argumentative.

We really needed something more akin to coalitions

That's the problem with the two-party system in the USA, in a full democracy this dynamic wouldn't happen. This is the achilles heel of american democracy and the downfall seems to have begun.

They don't intend for there to be a "next" administration.

Wouldn’t it be reasonable if another administration get in power and then need to purge all these positions of pro trump people?

Oh no! You have a great point for horror fans there.

I'd even say, it probably is somewhat _necessary_ in order to resume administration. What a beautiful, postfactual dilemma:

The Reps fear an ideological, systemic witch hunt, which they use as an excuse to replace government workers. The new workers are ideologically aligned with the Reps, encouraged to assist the dismantling of non-Rep institutions and carry out the King's will above and beyond the law.

Now when votes swing the other way, the new administration kind of _has_ to revert some of this damage to assume functioning.

Which is where the circle closes; the prophecy fulfills itself. Now the Reps have evidence for their previously baseless claims. The whole system is locked in a back-and-forth mud wrestling of replacing workers based on ideology.

his own people,

of which are wildly incompetent

Here's the pickle though. Wouldn't it be reasonable if another administration get in power and then need to purge all these positions of pro trump people?

Like what happens next? it's such a bleak world now.

The military that he just dismissed the leadership of and replaced with his own people, and the CIA that's directed by his people?

I don't know that the CIA has ever given a shit about the United States.

Hell H.W. Bush was the son of a man that tried to overthrow the government and Ford appointed him to CIA director in the 70s.

As far as I'm aware, the military, in the best case, will simply refuse to follow unlawful orders. There are formal processes to do so. That's part of military culture and law. Whether that system will hold up to Trump is unknown. When he issues unlawful orders, will soldiers simply refuse to comply? Unknown.

But one thing is for sure. It's not part of military culture to actively resist. There is no formal process for that to be protected or OK. That's simply insurrection and rebellion.

"Do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, ***foreign and domestic*** ;that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which you are about to enter: So help you God?"

Sometimes I wish the US were what tankies say it is.

Let's hope they aren't

Ok? Ukraine is obviously not targeting civilians in their drone strikes so your point is completely moot.

Not every russian is wearing one

Only if you ignore the context.

If I said “Mexico isn’t even trying to end this war” and you said “they are literally shooting every American that steps across the border!” it would not sound odd at all.

And it certainly wouldn’t sound bigoted against an ethnicity.

If USA were to invade mexico and someone would come up with the quote "they are literally shooting every american they spot on their soil" wouldn't it sound odd?

partisans were shooting germans troops, soldiers or the nazi they weren't “shooting every german on the spot"

You’re either not understanding the intent of their message or you’re willfully twisting it.

How i'm twisting anything? To me it looks like you are try to twist things here accusing me of being in bad faith when i simply pointed out yet another discrimination against "russians" as if they were all bad. Are you aware that there are russian people living in ukraine?

You’re either not understanding the intent of their message or you’re willfully twisting it.

That’s what is being pointed out.

They’re clearly referencing the invaders, you misunderstood and took umbrage where you didn’t need to. Having been corrected you’re still pushing the idea that they were being racist.

You’re acting in bad faith.

I am not new, but I have a skill that you might find useful, it's called "context".

racist generalization in comment?

Because there is no any racial generalization. From the context it was clear to anybody who is in good faith what OP meant. Even if it wasn't, OP comment was a statement on what is happening, so your remark "I hope they don't..." doesn't make any fucking sense, because you can just check what they are doing. Currently Russians in Ukraine that are being shot are invading troops.

So let's make a parallel. "Partisans were shooting germans", in the context of Italian resistance. Do you think it's a racist remark? Would you feel the need to say " oh boy, I hope they don't shoot German civilians", "oh, there are ethnical Germans in the north, I hope they are not shooting them".

No you wouldn't, because what you are doing is not in good faith, you are not raising any valid concern, you are just purposefully misunderstanding OP to stir shit.

I saw you around, and I know also you are Italian, so I will tell you in a way you understand. You are being a “puntalcazzista” to throw shade on Ukraine with vague racism claims. Anybody with a pulse will understand that “shooting every Russian on the spot” means “shooting every invader”

You must be new here, people have been racist toward russians for a good time.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/27157199

How exactly i'm throwing shade on ukraine by pointing out a racist generalization in comment?

I saw you around, and I know also you are Italian, so I will tell you in a way you understand. You are being a "puntalcazzista" to throw shade on Ukraine with vague racism claims.

Anybody with a pulse will understand that "shooting every Russian on the spot" means "shooting every invader", and that roughly would include also north Koreans or other ethnicities, should those set foot in Ukraine to assist Russian invasion.

You are trying to claim an interpretation that doesn't make sense, because - as I told you and you can easily verify - the Ukrainian army itself is full of Russian speaking people, who you might call "ethnic Russian" - whatever you think that means. So unless you are honestly suggesting that OP was suggesting Ukrainian army is also shooting on the spot to members of its own army, we both know what you are doing.

There are ethnic russians there. What i'm pointing out is that "shooting every russian they spot" sounds racist.

Only the Russian imperial narrative is so that Russians speaking people are considered Russians.

There are Russian speaking people in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and in many -Stans, they are not Russians.

Not a very useful remark. The Ukrainian army is full of Russians speaking people.

Are they wearing a Russian military uniform? Then they are an enemy combatant.

It's really not that hard, dude.

Context clues, my friend.

That post is clearly referring to shooting Russian soldiers that have invaded.

And just to help you further, the adjective "Russian" in that sentence refers to the state for which the soldiers fight. So a "Russian soldier" could be some poor dude from North Korea who got shipped over.

To further aid understanding, look at the military of a diverse place like the United States. You will have "American soldiers" working side by side who have different ethnic backgrounds and were even born on other continents.

He means "capitulate to the enemy"

They are literally shooting every Russian they spot on their soil

There are 8 millions russian speakers living in ukraine i hope these don't count as "russian"

They won, all lost

In my limited exposure to the ramblings of conservative acquaintances, they now consider Zelensky to be a "little dictator" who was rude to their favorite douches.

Regarding Israel, I think it's something along the lines of "judeo-christian values" good, brown savages bad, and OH LOOK SOMETHING SHINY!! Sorry, you were saying?

Probably "we won, you lost, get over it" as if that's how any of this works.

That really is a stark contrast. What do the apologetics say about this?

Are we also derailing Chinese and Russian power, and magically disarming all the nukes? Or are we just shitting on America and hoping nobody realizes that means there's going to be a power vacuum?

We will see. Pax Americana has been a hugely stabilizing force in many regions around the world. If an empire falls, fighting over the power vacuum commences. Empires get replaced by chaos and eventually other empires.

The three letter agencies haven't ever really been known for their respect of the constitution 😅..

the modern cia couldnt assassinate their way out of a cardboard bag

Derailing US political power is a good thing. Not good for the US, but good for the world.

It's exactly how trump operates. See the threat he posted this morning to block federal funding to universities that "let students protest" - he's going to block funding anyway, he just needs a plausible way to blame them for it.

Same thing here - a plausible way to blame Ukraine for withdrawing US support.

Plausible to maga anyway.

Isn't this more or less what T-bag said he would do?

You don't know that, and I'm skeptical that Trump would go to that much trouble to come up with an excuse. He hasn't needed an excuse to do anything else he's been doing.

What I would expect Trump to do is just pull support and if anybody asks him why, say loudly "America First!!!"

😂

I hadn't heard that. Nice to know we can still count on the UK to follow us down the rabbit hole of insanity.

UK has stated in no uncertain terms that they require US involvement in order to put troops into Ukraine for peacekeeping. I'm not sure about Sweden & Australia.

At least count I'm pretty sure the UK, Sweden, and Australia have all said they'd be willing to put troops into Ukraine for peacekeeping.

The US won’t provide the security guarantees Zelenskyy is asking for. He can try getting them from European countries though, but they do not seem willing to provide them either.

Yep. That pretty much summarizes it.

Ohhhh man we're gonna primary them *so* hard.

What do you think "impeachment" is? That's like saying "You can't sue him a third time. You already sued him twice, and nothing happened."

That is also my point. Don't worry though, you keep impeaching him until he dissolves congress.

You're response being 'yeah but you can be impeached multiple times' exactly demonstrates the weakness of that action.

It sounded like you were saying "You already impeached him, and he's still president (so impeaching him again is a waste of time)", but I could've misread you.

Yep that's my point

You can be impeached more than once. I think this would be his third time.

Didn't you guys try that before?

1. Joining and organizing within your local community to create connections with others is incredibly powerful, will lay the groundwork for effective resistance.

2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This can massively impact their income streams, and can bring a government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.

3. Join the IWW and attempt to unionize your workplace, so that the general strike is even more effective.

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Join up with allies while we still can easily!

When are we going to stop this?

When congress starts impeachment proceedings. Call your representatives. Listening you complain is their job.

Have you decided what means are acceptable for resistance for yourself yet

Russians agent, we are all witnessing soulles pigs destroy democracy and the lifes of millions for their own gains

Traitor

So the record currently stands at...

Zelensky - Let's try a deal, we just need security guarantees

Trump - Why are you so Disrespectful?

Zelensky - Let's try a deal, we just need security guarantees

Trump - Putin is a victim we're undoing sanctions

Zelensky - Let's try a deal, we just need security guarantees

Trump - Why won't Zelensky do a deal?

Zelensky - Let's try a deal, we just need security guarantees

Trump - We're stopping Aid.

US apparently also quit providing intel to Ukraine. Sorry for the Dutch link as source, best to use a browser translator on it.

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The US wouldn’t stop military aid to Israel while the IDF destroyed hospitals and killed children and journalists among many other war crimes. They will freeze aid to Ukraine as it defends itself in a war of conquest. Evidence suggests the USA would rather align with criminals like Putin and Netanyahu than war victims.

How much more do we have to witness before we accept, as a society, that Donald Trump and the GOP are enemies of the United States of America, and act accordingly?

We are suffering and losing our position as a world leader because of a felon rapist traitor. When are we going to stop this?

The U.S. Military and the CIA *must* know what a threat to the country Trump is, right?

......right?

>until Trump determines that Ukrainian leaders are making a genuine effort toward peace.

They are literally shooting every Russian they spot on their soil, how is that not making a genuine effort toward peace?

Who had ‘_Trump Picks a Fight With Zelenskyy In Order To Justify Pulling out Of Aid Agreements- Thereby Allowing Russia To Walk On In And Take What They Want_’ on their bingo card?

We all saw this coming, right? The whole bullshit forced argument he created…

Tell me I’m not the only one that knew this was set-up to justify withdrawing all support and letting Russia have Ukraine.

Is there a historical precedent for punishing the defender for daring to successfully resist invasion by a third country?

Just as his master told him.

The US media still does not dare to call Trump a Russian agent, despite him showing all symptoms.

There has been no single Russian attempt to destroy the US being as successful as putting their own agent into the White House, right into the Oval Office.

This is what I hope happens next: Ukraine wins anyway. European politicians that still weren’t sure about defending themselves without the US will be emboldened not to rely on America anymore. Europe as a whole becomes stronger and much less willing to tolerate Trump’s obnoxious demands, and see him as the weak puppet that he is.

I would love to see everyone just start ignoring Trump and everything he says and just keeps doing their job.

I have not a lot of knowledge how American politics work, but isn't this for congress to decide? how is Trump so powerful? (sorry for my daft question)

Entire admin is pathetic losers. And thanks a lot to all those geniuses who wouldn't vote for Kamala because of Gaza, this is partially on your hands

In exchange for what from Russia?

I'd say that fighting off Russian invaders so your country can return to the peaceful state it was in is working towards peace.

Alternatively, has he asked Russia if it would just go home? Seems like another pretty efficient way to achieve peace.

Ok. Part 1 is done. Part 2 & 3 (order doesn't matter) is that Trump ends sanctions and then stages a massive false flag attack that they then blame on Ukrainian Extremists upset over the ending of support to enact a full police state.

Part 4: ???

Part 5: profit

Any suggestions on what to do with my retirement? How to get it out? Where to put it?

https://www.itamilradar.com/2025/03/04/look-who-we-have-here/

"The ambiguous American behavior continues: on the one hand, they (verbally) threaten to withdraw support for Ukraine, including intelligence assistance, while on the other hand, they are increasing SIGINT flights over the Black Sea."

How is this not seen as anything but a massive conflict of interest by anybody with any sort of authority in the current government? How?

Each time I read "Trump orders", "Trump does X", I always ask myself: "Wait, can he do that? Congress? House? Judiciary? Cheks? Balances? Hellooooooooooo...?"...

... but this is still the first few months of his second term. At this pace, he will be a literal king in a few more months.

A scary prospect to say the least, and I hope it's not too late for America to do something about this. This should not be normalized. This *cannot* be normalized.

I kinda wonder what people in the 3 letter agencies are thinking right now. I would hope that enough of these agencies actually view Trump as a fundamental threat to democracy, because he actually is. People have warned for this to happen, for a while now, even though many are surprised at the speed at which it happens. But still, you would kind of hope for some of these agencies to actually stand for the constitution, instead of for the ruling party and his current president.

The US is so much more than just the current political ruling class. It's sad that there seems at least, to be so little visible opposition to their efforts to derail the US geopolitical power and to overthrow the system of law and order. One who the Republicans should hold deep, and definitely the people who pledge their allegiance to the constitution. I wonder if it would have gone different if someone like Saunders or Obama would have tried a similar play.

Doesn't really matter most European tech is way ahead of the US anyway, it's just they the US pay stupid amounts to their own companies. I kinda feel most US tech is a super expensive in comparison honestly.

I feel a cupholder on a US jet would be valued at something like 50,000. I'd honestly be really curious how a Rafale fared against say a f-35 I suspect it would win

My suspicion is an European jets would own and devestate an American ones while being a small fraction of the price.

Yes I am honestly saying while America spends stupid amount off Defense they don't hold the slightest advantage tech wise.

This is so cool. STOP FUNDING WAR.

Hallelujah