• DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    The stupid thing is that the unified West had no reason to fear Putin’s hollow threats until Trump started doing everything he can to destroy what makes the West strong. He wants to roll over in front of Russia and make the US Putin’s bitch.

    The West won’t roll over like him though. They’ll strengthen their alliances against Russia and will become something far stronger. It just won’t involve the US anymore.

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      Trump is afraid of putin because of the shit he has on trump. Trump is a russian asset, there is no doubt about it.

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    Putin may or may not have video proof of Trump raping a child but Trump sure acts like Putin might.

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      After all this im scared that if something like that was released let’s say tomorrow third of country would not care.

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      I still kinda want it to be the “pee tape” everyone was speculating about last time around. Because that’s the funniest possible piece of kompromat I can think of that Putin could have on ole Donnie Boy. Realistically though considering his longstanding friendship with Epstein…

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        I doubt that Hitlerpig would even be embarrassed by a pee tape. He’d probably be proud of it. If Putain has anything on Hitlerpig that Hitlerpig is legitimately embarrassed or afraid of, then it must be legitimately bad/evil. My money is on kids being involved…

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          He’d want to hide anything that shows him in a subordinate role, so there might be video of him bottoming in some particularly humiliating way. He’d also want to hide anything involving rape of minors. He’s depraved enough to have done either or both.

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        I’m not sure why you assume it’s one or the other. My money is on both. Probably has a whole library to choose from…

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          Less assuming it is one or the other than guessing which one seems more likely of the two. Probably I’m hoping that it’s just the pee tape because it’s the most funny option I’ve seen laid out. That all of this stems from an act that in and of itself registers at “okay, that’s kind of weird” but isn’t like omg your life is over y’know?

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        I’ve always figured the pee tape doesn’t really exist. But that doesn’t stop the Russians from spreading rumors about it, anyway. It’s another way to get into Trump’s head. It stokes his paranoia even further.

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          I thought the pee tape didn’t exist either, but then a Russian Call Girl was able to place Manafort on Russian Oligarch Derapaska’s yacht, because she was there, and then she claimed to be the person that brokered the underage prostitutes in the Pee Video. Her story about Manafort on the yacht turned out to be true, and Manafort was convicted, so she seems to have some credibility.

          For those who don’t know what the Pee Pee Tape really is, supposedly HitlerPig was gifted a couple of underage prostitutes, and he wanted them to pee on the bed that the Obamas slept in when they visited Moscow as president.

          Apparently they didn’t pee on him, so it isn’t that sort of kompromat. It’s more him directing the scene, and taking great pleasure in them peeing on a bed that Obama happened to sleep in once. Weird.

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          He’s done a lot worse than peepee tapes and his cult still follows him, and no judge will sentence him. This is why I don’t think the pee tapes exist.

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        That sounds like some deliberately, misleading propaganda dropped by Trump side to gaslight people and convince them any further Tape would be a fake one if it wasn’t that specific pee tape

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    Mr Trump pledged to end the war on “day one” of his presidency. And as the conflict drags on, the giant question mark hovering over western Europe is how long it will take for the US to make good on its promise.

    Why do journalists insist in taking Trump’s “promises” seriously in any capacity? An otherwise good article tainted by these two ridiculous fucking sentences. He won’t make good on his promise because he is incapable due to being fucking terrified of Putin the thing the fucking article is about.

    However, she is equally scathing of European leaders for not coming to terms with this new reality sooner. “The fact that the Europeans are so shocked by his deference to Putin actually shows that they haven’t also done their homework,” she said.

    She even literally spells it out later in the article but I guess the journalist wasn’t listening.

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        Yes, they absolutely should. But I have yet to hear any mainstream media call Hitlerpig a liar, even as they kept count of his 50,000+ recorded and demonstrable LIES, during his first “presidency”.

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          That’s because the money is too good in ratings and ad revenue. The media doesn’t want a boring presidency. They eat all those lies up and just rile up the public to make more money off angertainment. The Donvict is their golden goose of scandalous content they crave so much. Why do you think they help get him elected with all that extra air time?

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        Mr Trump pledged to end the war on “day one” of his presidency. And as the conflict drags on, the giant question mark hovering over western Europe is how long it will take for the US to make good on its promise.

        That’s absolutely not calling out a lie. They should call them out when they lie in a much more forceful manner than this.

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          “Person promised to do X and hasn’t done it” sounds like calling out a lie to me. You just want different wording. Even maga and their one shared brain cell understands what is being said here.

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      Trump has been a money launderer for Putin for the past 3 decades. Trump’s entire reason to own international resorts is to use them for laundering money. It’s easy. Build a huge resort, say it’s full even when it is not, and it just so happens to be that half the guests paid in cash. Well, the cash guest, Putin and his oligarchy bros, said “Keep this up or we will ruin you”. So the choice is to make money or lose it all/get killed. Pretty easy choice right?

      Whether or not he’s a pedo who did illegal shit on camera is another story

      Fast forward to today.

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    Putin, who has maintained the same “tight team” of top diplomats around him for the past 25 years, dispatched his Stanford-educated economic adviser Kirill Dmitriev, former ambassador to Washington Yuri Ushakov, and Sergei Lavrov, his comic villain foreign minister, to recent talks in Saudi Arabia.

    “These guys are really skilled diplomats. They all speak absolutely excellent English,” said Hill. “They can talk the hind leg off a donkey. They can turn you around in circles. They’ve got an answer for everything.”

    Batting for the US are Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, Mike Waltz, Mr Trump’s erstwhile national security adviser, and his special envoy Steve Witkoff, a former real estate dealer. Between them, they have less than a year’s-worth of cabinet-level experience.

    So, what does the dancing Russian bear make of these three cotillion debutantes? “They’re eating the neophytes on the US side for dinner,” said Hill.

    I saw Hill’s testimony and she is extremely credible and intelligent. This is her bottom line, and it is that we are fighting global information and geopolitical warfare against a merciless and shrewd veteran with a clown car circus act.

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      She’s a neocon, a student of scumbag Reaganite or Cheneyoid cold warriors like Richard Pipes. One of the only good things to be said for her is her recognition that Trump is an idiot. But she’s not really all that different in that regard than John Bolton, though less inclined to say outrageous things to get headlines.

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    Who thinks they’ve actually spent the money to Maintain thier nukes. Try it I say. All these scumbags can go hide in thei bunkers and their wealth will Mean jack squat. They’ll need to fend off the hordes of people who will rip them limb from limb before the end of the day.

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      There’s a very high chance that most of them no longer work. Although if even just 5% of the ones deployed are working, that’s still over 80. Which is more than enough to start WW3.

      And it’s almost unthinkable that they haven’t kept strict maintenance on at least a few.

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      Of all those nukes, about 50% just wouldn’t respond if launched. They’d just sit there. Poor maintenance, some base commander in the past 6 decades sold the payload or other gear, they’ve never been tested or updated, they’ve been stripped for scrap metal, etc.

      Of the other 30%, half of those might detonate in the silos, which would be hilarious, and most of the rest would probably flame out in flight, and crash unpredictably. A few might actually fly properly, but not many.

      Call his bluff, and let him launch. If he does, whether they fly or not, bomb Moscow into the stone age (conventional bombs, he’d probably irradiate his own country by then anyway, with their garbage bombs), take over the entire nation and let the UN manage it for a while, and hunt down Putin and his fortune.

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    What a weird article. It bounces from hyperbole to real discussion to Fiona Hill’s childhood.

    But as for ww3, lol no. Russia is spent. They can make a mess of Ukraine and Central Asia but they are spent.