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That kind of reminds me of those maps conservatives like to show of the US color-coded red and blue according to how they voted. It looks overwhelmingly red, but neglects the fact that land doesn't vote, and huge swaths of the country are red but represent very few people. Look at a similarly color-coded NC gubernatorial map and it will look like a GOP landslide, too.
The video is of a Trump Secretary telling the Trump Admin's side of it to FoxNews. It's not even his job to be objective.
What difference is it to Ukraine if preventing WW3 means a compromise with Russia that means conceding land and resources to them?
What difference does it make to us if Ukraine wants to keep fighting a war that they can't win?
You mean besides saving tens of thousands of lives? Preventing any more of their women and children from being raped?
That's not really a reasonable take. I was serious. President Trump wants to end the war as quickly as possible; if that means Ukraine concedes things to Russia, I can see why ending it as quickly as possible takes a backseat to ending it as justly as possible for Ukraine.
Trump has said that he doesn't know if the ceasefire plan will lead to peace. But without sitting down and negotiating, they won't even be able to get to a ceasefire. And Zelensky has shown no willingness to even negotiate without us giving them security guarantees, which this administration will not do. Zelensky won't even hear agree to stop fighting assuming Russia takes the ceasefire deal at first. I don't blame him for being skeptical, but I do blame him for trying to bully us into allowing him to dictate our foreign policy.
I dont, and Putin wouldnt be in the need of needing what Ukraine is needing...other countries are aiding Ukraine as well and the money is in many forms, loans, grants, direct aid and etc....also a large bulk if I understand correctly of the military aid/equipment is dated and we were upgrading/phasing out, not 100% on my wording there....i dont think he disrespected anyone imo, seems like it was all set up in the beginning when trump talked about his dress upon arrival....he is a wartime president, same way basically churchill was dressed when he visited the white house during wartime.....leading countries are involved to help support a sovereign country from being wrongfully invaded, if Ukraine taken were would it stop?....thats why leading countries are so invested
Like I said. I don't blame him for being skeptical. But do blame him for trying to dictate our foreign policy. By changing the time and place to sign the minerals agreement that he knew the terms 3 times and coming into Washington, then deliberately turning it into spectacle in front of the world because he was obviously advised to do so, that is how he was bullying us.
By deflecting, you're saying it is okay for them to round up unwilling citizens and force them to fight in a war they cannot win.
How did he try to dictate our foreign policy? Asking for things isn't that.
Sounds like a crude form of conscription, which cis men still have to sign up for at 18 in our country.
nope dont agree w/ it, but wartime makes things happen that shouldn't, kinda like the draft that was forced on American citizens in the past.., of course Ukraine cant defeat Russia on its own and they should've never been invaded to start w/ to have to negotiate anything....this is like I come to your house start tearing everything up and stealing stuff for no reason, just because i want to bully, then you have to negotiate w/ me to stop and give me some of your property to leave....seems you couldve ended w/ the bolded, but how could it have been prevented, as thats what had already been decided was going to happen
In the United States, military conscription, commonly known as the draft, has been employed by the U.S. federal government in six conflicts: the American Revolutionary War, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.
There’s no way in hell Putin is giving back the land already taken. That’s a nonstarter and why this war would have lasted until a) Russia took over all of Ukraine or b) Foreign aid to Ukraine dried up, whichever came first if the Dems were in charge
As long as it was less than $1000 I would be fine with it. Lol
In my post above, I gave a pretty good reason why the draft is different than kidnapping citizens.
What point are you making. No disrespect, I just can't see what you're trying to tell me. What would be YOUR end game here?
the top was in reference when you said the draft started w/ the vietnam war...this just shows the practice went back even further....the bottom agrees w/ you not wanting and us soldiers over there fighting and if ukraine is taken, whose to stop them from bogusly creating reasons to keep going to other countries over there?
Oh, if only he would think of the children!
No. I said that I was against the draft, mainly because of Vietnam. I wasn't saying that was the first time.
Agree or disagree. I don't think Russia has any right to tell another country who to align with. But if you have an alliance that was formed as a deterrent to combat you and you have a mutual agreement to keep that alliance off of your borders, how are you supposed to take it when they continue to push towards your borders? What would be your red line in their shoes? NATO isn't a trade partnership. They're not about building economies and creating wealth. They're about building military presence. Russia has been warning NATO for 30 years not to push east and they keep doing it. Now I am not saying they don't have a right to push east. But what did the expect to happen?
10-4, i took your comment as saying the draft was due to the vietnam war...understood..........yeah kidnapping and making you fight is harsh, the draft is harsh as well, but def not as harsh and there are some loopholes and wiggle room
fair...with our location on the map, we should just sit back from basically all the conflict in the world....then if ever the need what if the world viewed our issues that way when we needed help, though a scenario is tough to imagine
I would have agreed with you.. three years ago. The Russians continue to slowly advance westward in the Donbas, a Russian speaking region that Putin has been eyeing for decades.
I'm all for keeping American military out of it. I don't begrudge Zelensky for asking, and when the very existence of his country is at stake, I don't begrudge him for continuing to fight back.
