re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

and the reason Obama did not provide "lethal Aid" to Ukraine?

Because he was accused of orchestrating the Maidan revolution, as parroted every day here by somebody.

So... he orchestrated a revolution he did not arm?

Another case of Schrödinger's Obama.

Maybe they can talk some sense into the man and he can resign.

I buy that, people will rally around their guy.
It’s been that way forever.

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That's a curious set of delusions and excuses turning a blind eye to the border invasion, men playing in women's sports, perverted sexual mutilation of children, insanely reckless spending, inflation and wanton corruption in the justice system. Try running a candidate that isn't a dim-witted font of word salad next time.

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I thought it was the price of eggs?

Popular vote totals show Trump got 49.9% of the popular vote, Harris got 48.3%.

The electoral college vote comes down to the same swing states... where some Democrats did win even as Trump won the top of the ticket.

Agreed, Harris was a weak candidate... when both parties strayed from having the second place finisher in the primaries as the VP nominee they screwed up. That person has shown that they know how to effectively run a campaign and build support. Harris was a disaster in her primary candidacy... she made no sense to me as VP nominee except for the fact that Biden made one his stupid promises... Biden himself was a weak nominee and was picked as VP because Hillary (and Bill) had been so awful to Obama during the primary that she could not be VP, and Obama needed an old white guy that working-class people trusted who would also not overshadow him.

Still, weak candidates aside, Biden beat Trump in 2020, and Harris was not shut out in some "Reagan 1984" fashion or anything.

The House has a historically close majority that special elections might reverse even before the midterms.

And Trump's current approval rating is lower than Biden's at this same time in his Presidency.

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Posting Tucker so CitizenKuck shows up. It’s his bat signal. He’s MIA. I wonder why?

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After watching the entire presser and listening to Rubio on CNN and Zelensky on Fox last night, It is clear that it wasn't some predetermined setup.

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Poor Rubio. His most respectable political trait was his opposition to dictators... in his ancestral Cuba and Central and South America. And now he has to squirm as a dictator is appeased and he has to parrot that dictator's talking points.

I won't be surprised if he resigns in a year to get the stink off of him so he has a political future when all this is over.

Can someone get in touch with the DU and let them know their village idiot got out again?

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It's highly likely that Zelenskyy is more popular in Ukraine today than he was prior to meeting with Trump.

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Bookmarking this. Zelensky will be lucky to be alive a month from now. Maybe a week. Then there will be a civil war within Ukraine to finally put an end to all the "Ukraine is fully united!" propaganda.

A Shameful, Appalling Spectacle

In an Oval Office shitshow for the ages, Trump and Vance try to humiliate Ukraine’s wartime leader Zelensky.

But what prompted the final blowup was, precisely, a reasonable question from Zelensky about an essential part of any peace deal: security guarantees. After Vance pompously declared that “what makes America a good country is America engaging in diplomacy” rather than Joe Biden-style chest-thumping, Zelensky asked for permission to respond (so much for his supposed rudeness!) and then described all the previous agreements Russia had signed and broken between 2014 and 2022. Finally, he asked, “What kind of diplomacy, JD, you are speaking about?” Vance, who obviously had no good answer to these points, snippily replied that it was “the kind of diplomacy that’s going to end the destruction of your country.” Vance then chided Zelensky for being “disrespectful.” Things went downhill from there, with Vance berating Zelensky for forcibly conscripting soldiers and—in response to Zelensky’s invitation to visit Ukraine and see its fight with his own eyes—for conducting “propaganda tours.”

The Bulwark