re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Do you know exactly what Trump’s position is?
I do not. He’s been very careful not to box himself in.

I know many believe if elected he won’t aid Ukraine. I know what he said about negotiations with Putin. I know behind the scenes he supposedly helped Johnson pass the aid bill.

Maybe in the debates we will get a more definite answer, but right now Trump is in a good spot.

Meanwhile Biden, who was initially thought to be tough on Russia is looking weaker and weaker. Not letting Ukraine strike back with American munitions inside Russia is not a good look. It brings back memories of Vietnam and prohibits Ukraine from retaliating against Russian forces killing Ukrainian civilians.

Thats why I left it open ended by saying maybe he actually does mean it.

I do know that America First is at least his public tagline, and if he wins he won’t have to make decisions with a second term in mind so there is no reason for him *not* to go all in on America first in a second term.

But he also waffles on things fairly often, so who knows

I would argue that supporting the latest aid bill is an example. But to be fair to him, he’s in election mode and I’m sure internal polling told him the people against aid are voting for him anyway, and the people for it are mixed. So he was trying to win more voters who aren’t sold on him already by supporting the aid package. Or maybe it was genuine and it also just made election sense, who really knows with him

Anne Applebaum
@anneapplebaum

Russia's tactics are terrorist tactics, by any legal or moral definition. I wrote this in July 2022, but after the deliberate targeting of a crowded shopping center and a book warehouse and printing plant in Kharkiv in recent days, it has to be repeated.

Atlantic gift article...

Russia’s War Against Ukraine Has Turned Into Terrorism

You’re not going to get legit answer. Some in this thread will tell you Ukraine has to drag people to the front to get them to fight, others act like Ukraine has over a million willing and able bodies ready to go when called. The truth is somewhere in the middle. There is no incentive for Ukraine (or Russia) to actually tell the truth on their numbers

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SirWinston

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Still waiting on your reply to my question about how you claim that Ukraine's negotiating position is getting weaker by the day.

You've admitted that Putin is now offering better terms than two years ago ("proof that he's not the monster you claim").

So how is their position getting worse each day?

Or did you just say that our of frustration? Or ignorance? Or bias?

terrorism

New footage released from inside Kharkiv mall during Russian attack
May 26, 2024, 09:14 AM

Police have released a video captured inside the Epicenter mall in Kharkiv during a Russian aerial bomb attack on the shopping center on May 25.

The footage, posted by Serhiy Bolvinov, head of the Investigation Department of the National Police in Kharkiv Oblast, reveals the harrowing moments just before the attack occurred.

The surveillance camera footage shows six individuals in civilian clothes inside a section of the mall moments before the devastation.

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Could he do it, without Congress approving an Act of War?

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Oh I think the ones fighting are fighting like hell. Judging by all the videos on line it’s hell over there.

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Yes they are and those people have earned our support.