u/Vikthor

What is truthdig.com? They make a major revelation out of something that is obvious to anybody who spent just 5 minutes thinking about it. Ever since the Roman panem et circenses it is known that even the most authoritarian of dictators has to maintain some level of approval by the people he rules and can't do everything he wishes.

Hitler had his KdF and still had to scale down his eradication of "undesirables" before the start of the war, putin has been bribing russians for more than 20 years with scraps from oil money and yet he can't use conscripts in Ukraine.

It shouldn't be therefore surprising that economic sanctions are enacted also against the population in hope that they will undermine the support for the government in question.

In ideal world EU should agree on a handful of red state exports on which we'd apply say 10%, let the US exporters explain their president why that's wrong and only then enter the negotiations with the US and whatever then the outcome is GET IT IN THE WRITING with his signature.

Yes, he would then try to blame the "evil EU", but having a written and signed agreement is the only way to prevent this monthly "it's on - and now it's off" charade.

Now unfortunately even if anybody had the balls to actually propose it there is too many actors who would shoot any such proposal down. Be it because of fear for their exports or just to be contrarian.

Austria isn't as blatant as Hungary but their policy is also pretty russia-friendly.

And there is a reason A-H collapsed and it wasn't just because of WW1 and Bosnian Serbs. Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians or basically anybody who wasn't German or Hungarian hated the monarchy in the end(With the possible exception of the Croats, who reached some kind of agreement with Hungarians right before the collapse).

As long as they control the government, military, police and other stuff putin and his regime are russia. If russians don't like that they can make their own Maidan.

Does he even ha~~s~~ve a say? Doesn't Polish stance on Ukraine's entry depend on the government & parliament rather than the president?

...and stay there.

Whether he is a legitimate military target is disputable, because the whole war russia started is illegitimate. Although granted, at least he isn't a medic or a child.

Your comment would be true if it wasn't for the secret part of the protocol and the joint attack on Poland that resulted from that.

All he had to do was to not force Czechoslovakia to surrender and he didn't need military presence in Czechoslovakia, deploying troops to France might have been enough. Czechoslovakia had mobilized 1 million man strong army, which would have been able to hold Germans for a considerable time. Not to mention he might have been able to get Poland to join.

Also I am not sure about which Churchill's plan to protect Poland you are talking as by the time Churchill became a PM, Poland was conquered and Germany was just starting attack on France.

Fuck also everybody who could, but didn't vote against him.

Now that is a lie. He only likes himself and Ivanka.

A woman? That sounds like DEI, that's not allowed in the US of Trump.

>it will inevitably cause the US to be isolated in trade

That's the goal. He isn't a Kremlin asset, he is a Pyongyang asset, implementing Juche in the US ;)

You know Canada is a NATO founding member, don't you?

Also we have a free trade agreement with Canada.