That image with the size comparison of the Musk coup and the frisbee story was infuriating. The media can F right off.Carole Cadwalladr - call it what it is, it's a coup.
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Do you want to fight this war to the last Ukrainian, or do you want the war to end soon?
It's a coup when the democratically elected president starts enacting the policies that voters elected him to enact? Yeah, no. That's Orwellian abuse of language right there.
Okay then, suppose there's a "deal" with Russia, and it gets its "reward", and it stops attempting to conquer all of Ukraine tomorrow.
Somebody wrote the twit for him and he knew nothing about it.Donald's Napoleonic quip about “he who saves his country doesn’t violate any laws” actually derives from one of Cicero's Catilinarian orations and goes back to the year of Cicero's Consulship and his exposure and exile of Catlina. He procured a 'senatus consultum ultimum' a permission to legitimise the use of force against citizens of Rome.
Do we think Donald knows this? maybe he has read Cicero? or one of Mary Beard's books?
Or someone just fed him the line
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I don't want them to either. But that doesn't answer the question of what to do, given that we don't live in an ideal world. Is your aim to punish Russia, or to stop more Ukrainians from dying? Which is more important to you?
When did Ukrainian deaths stop meaning anything to you?
I would like that too. But there's no road map to make that happen. The war has been going on for three years now. How long do you think it's going to take for them to retake the territory they lost? Three more years? Ten more years? Do you want to commit American soldiers to fighting and dying on Ukrainian soil? Do you want to commit French and German soldiers to do that? Nobody before Trump did, so why would you expect Trump to? And if we're not doing that, then what exactly is your plan to restore Ukraine's borders?
Do you not understand the concept of negotiations? Because it doesn't seem like it to me.
Sure. But which outcome do you prefer: both Ukraine and Russia going extinct, or both surviving? The fact that Russia faces a demographic time bomb doesn't really help Ukraine here and now, not when Putin seems quite willing to eat his seed grain.
Oh, they absolutely have a say in this. Any negotiated settlement that Ukraine doesn't agree to won't happen.
And what does that mean? Because if they lose enough men, it doesn't end well regardless of any reclaimed territory or security guarantees. Furthermore, it's not just about what you want, it's about what can be achieved. What I want (an immediate end to the war, plus Ukraine reclaiming all its territory, plus security guarantees to make sure Russia never tries again) cannot be achieved. I suspect you would like something similar, and likewise I suspect what you want cannot be achieved either. So what's the best we can settle for? You still aren't actually answering that question.
Depends on the payoff. Keep in mind, this war has massively hurt Russia. If the payoff is less than the cost, do they really have an incentive to try again?
It's a coup when he starts dismantling the checks and balances created by the Founding Fathers to prevent exactly what is happening now, one man having unchecked power. Do you not want to live in a democracy? Do you honestly believe he will stand down at the end of the current term, and hold a free and fair election?
People like him tend to not recognize Ukraine as a sovereign country, more like a European colony or an American territory that the West can do with as we please. The fact that they have their own wishes and needs, and their own sovereign government that answers to makes it own decisions without consulting the EU or US, seems completely incomprehensible to them. Incredibly Weird, but that's trumpkins for you.
Are these rhetorical questions? I ask because I'm certain of Zig's views on the subject. As long as it is their guy that is king, they see nothing wrong with the dismanting of the democracy.
You know there's no real point in replying to strawmen posts that aren't made in good faith. Correct their lies when neccessary and let them scream into the void the rest of the time. They are a cult, they can't be saved.
We might have to bribe Russia to stop simply because they might not be able to afford to stop otherwise. Financially speaking, Russia has already lost the war, in that they have paid more to take over Ukraine than Ukraine is worth to them. They have heavily militarized their economy since the start of the war, and might not be able to afford to demobilize without causing an economic crash. If that is the case, they might try to prop up their economy by trying to steal resource-rich areas controlled by their neighbors. All the more reason for Ukraine to insist on solid security guarantees.
He doesn't have unchecked power. He has done nothing to expand the power of the executive branch. What he has done is consolidate power within the executive branch, but that was always supposed to be the case. The executive branch wasn't supposed to be ruled by a class of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats.
Indeed. Which is why I'm fine with the President being in actual control of the executive branch.
Yes. Nothing he's doing now suggests he won't.
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