That's true. Quality over quantity.

What if the country cease to exist. I think the rare earth's will be controlled by UDA and Russia. Not sure how on earth a rump state is going to pay.

funding a war which cannot be won is an exercise in driving down a dead end, actually, driving over a cliff. sure you can sell the car but the person in the car wont need another car after this.

This post was edited by ferdia on Feb 18 2025 04:47pm

The privjet at the end cracks me up

This is crazy!

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Trump is right on this. Finally we'll stop laundering money in Ukraine. ''Where did all that money go?'' I'd love to know too Mr.President.

I'm really looking forward to the post-post-truth era, a kind of modern day truth and reconciliation.
That's what a real accountability should look like. Not criminal charges, not forever war, not right by might, not censoring people. Bringing out the truth in the long run. We'll have to face up to the fact that the US supported a revolution by an ultranationalist minority in Ukraine but wouldn't invest the strength necessary to oppose a nuclear power on their doorstep, just enough to get Ukrainians killed. We'll acknowledge that children weren't at particular risk of Covid but locking down the country cost them a year of school. We'll admit Trump didn't collude with Russia, that the DNC rigs its primaries. There are so many stories like this where the mainstream media has just deep throated the disinformation and treats it like scandalous heresy when someone dares to speak the truth. Hell maybe in my lifetime people will even admit Ilhan Omar was born Ilhan Abdullahi Nur Said Elmi and married her own brother

That narrative does not exist in europe yet. We still have all these experts crying on national news about how trump is a weak leader, handing this victory to Russia which will (and i quote) "embolden dictators all around the world that might is right". w/e!

Liberal democracy and the right to free speech are a uniquely american ethos that was only forcibly transposed onto europe in the aftermath of WW2. Every national conservation we see from the likes of Macron and Scholz reflects that the skepticism and opposition to civil liberties cuts all the way to the bone. This past week has been all handwringing over Vance having the temerity to suggest europeans should be free to hold and espouse political views without fear of imprisonment. This has been a common thread in the postwar era. We tried impotently to export democracy to the mideast and found that if you actually give self determination to muslim jihadis, they'll make a jihadi caliphate not a liberal democracy. Europeans were ruled by monarchs for millennia, the few that sought freedom already eloped with lady liberty. Shouldn't act surprised when european dictators feel emboldened to lock up their own citizens for opposing them politically.

Trump is right, the Ukrainian people deserve a seat at the negotiation table, not a dictator who has clung to power long after his term ended.