What does this have to do with Ukraine? We’ll get there. First - the failure of this idiotic price-relief plan was as predictable as the sunrise, but it’s even worse than that. This clumsy “deal” is indicative of so much more. It was pure theatre and never meant to actually do anything to the supply or price of diesel.
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The real goal was clearly to try and unilaterally remove Russian sanctions on oil exports. Get the money flowing again. Pretend this is so urgent and necessary that it was okay to ignore sanctions.
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The secondary goal was a cheap political play to pretend there was relief coming for diesel prices. Way too little, done way too late, and to no practical effect.
It’s execution was as absurd as the idea - but think about what the second point means. The Russians and the Trump admin CLEARLY collaborated to try and help the Republicans in the midterms. . TrumPutin openly declared that Russia would do a token gesture to help the GOP. They just did it poorly. I know we’re all numb to the plain facts these days, but it’s still shocking to just accept that the President of the U.S. works for Putin.
Not that his devotion to Russia is a surprise to anyone. But it shows the incredibly lazy state of desperation they’re in right now. And this is the U.S. admin Ukraine is expected to negotiate peace and security guarantees with?
Ukraine would be better off to keep hurting the Russian army and economy and wait these black hearted mooks out. These are not geniuses in the TrumPutin conglomerate. They’re ham-fisted gangsters, full stop.
I know we’re all numb to the plain facts these days, but it’s still shocking to just accept that the President of the U.S. works for Putin.
The fact that one person can be corrupt is not so shocking. The shocking fact is that the whole country just accepts it.
He also works for Israel and the Saudis and NVidia and Apple and whomever pays him.
Dude is pathological about having people cashkakke his face.
Put somebody out there with limited drawing skills draw this for me and not use any AI.
There’s a case to be made that the midterm results show they don’t want to. What else can they do? They’ve empowered the democrats to do something. AND sent a loud and clear message to the GOP that a personality cult of a delusional, narcissistic, lying octogenarian rageaholic troll isn’t a winning electoral strategy going forward.
The people have done their part. Now we’ll see what the politiicans will do.
I wish I could share your optimism. From where I sit the Bluenami was due to cost of living issues (this broadly encompasses the effect Tariffs, The Iran War, and the immigration crackdown had on inflation) and nothing to do with Trump’s personality. I would expect to see cries for his impeachment otherwise and instead we’re getting investigations of his entourage.
Sure the Reps are playing the blame game on Trump’s regime now, but, all it will take is another clown brazenly spouting whatever BS they want to hear and a grassroots coalition of
racist idiots, erTea-baggers, erMAGATs, will start this nonsense all over again. There are absolutely those in the party who will look at Trump’s reign as a practice run, and not a warning.That is to say: the disease may be in remission, but it’s still in there festering.
I’m begging to be proven wrong, but until then I will still be doing whatever I can to ensure Canada never exposes their back to the US ever again because the damage they’ve done (still ongoing FTR) is way too high.
Very often not only accept, but adopt it when the corruption trickles down
That constitution is shite, absolute dog shit.
It was probably empty and just a scam to make voters think he did something.
Yeah, which isn’t a surprise to anyone not in their cult. But even at it’s most innoncent, it’s clearly direct Russian interference to try and steer an election result.
What would the GOP reaction have been if Obama had done a deal with Iran to try and help Democratic prospects in an election?
