re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Considering like 40% of this country despises Trump, it didn't go the way you hoped.

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"AMONG SPEECH WATCHERS"

Who was more inclined to bother to watch that idiocy?

In a poll taken before the speech, 6 in 10 viewers said they approved of Trump’s overall handling of the presidency. These positive numbers are in contrast to the president’s approval ratings, with just 48 percent of adults approving of his performance as president so far and 52 percent disapproving, a Sunday CNN poll found.

Perhaps the difference is due to the speech viewership trending more Republican than the general public. CNN found that the viewing audience was 14 percent more GOP than the general population, while CBS News found that 51 percent of speech-watchers identified as Republican, 20 percent as Democrats and 27 percent as independents.

AOL.com

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Trump is painting himself and the GOP into an indefensible corner. As I said last week, every time he speaks into a microphone, he costs the GOP 5,000 votes in 2026. That may be understated due to what he is saying into those microphones now.

Cutting all aid to Ukraine is a huge boost to our principle enemy and threat for the last eight decades, but it can be justified to the mouth breathers as saving tax dollars.

However, suspending the Pentagon's cyber offensive against Russia doesn't save any tax dollars. Nor does cutting all intelligence feed to the Ukrainians. Doesn't save a nickle. How will the White House traitor justify either of these orders? When is Trump going to start dropping the pretense and start talking about Putin as America's misunderstood friend?

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The minute Trump's approval ratings get low enough to make him feel secure in it, Thune will start to push back in the Senate on just about everything...

Those upcoming special House elections should be interesting.

Avoiding Town Halls for the next 2 years will probably not help the messaging battle.

The American public mostly does not even pay attention to what's going on in Ukraine. They generally support the idea of a country fighting to keep its freedom... but make them think that will be an inconvenience to them, personally, and they get wishy washy. But they are getting more and more pissed by Musk's chainsaw to things they are instantly feeling...

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Isn't that the guy who was convicted of giving away state secrets because he couldn't keep his dick in his pants?

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It is also the same guy who predicted that the Ukraine offensive would break through to the Sea of Azov and the Russian army would crumble.

He is as full of shite as Ben Hodges. I think both have probably been paid for 3 years to push a narrative. I know Hodges showed up in the states (he lives in Germany) at the time of the NATO meeting in DC and stayed in country for a month campaigning against Trump.

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Trump is painting himself and the GOP into an indefensible corner. As I said last week, every time he speaks into a microphone, he costs the GOP 5,000 votes in 2026

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lol get off Facebook. The majority of this country doesn’t want to keep paying for this war nor held responsible for its success or failure.

If you can’t understand how different the world is today vs 80 years ago the world has passed you by.

That’s just never going to happen. For this to happen U.S. companies and U.S. citizens would be in Ukraine in some capacity mining for rare earth minerals along with Ukrainians so the mineral deal itself is the best security Ukraine can possibly have at this point. Putin thought he could overrun a smaller Ukraine but he’s not going to risk poking the bear by keeping up hostilities with U.S. citizens, not volunteers to fight but regular citizens. Putin would never risk a situation like that. Give Putin a lot of what they control because it’s a wasteland anyway and would cost an immense amount of money to rebuild so let that be the Russians burden. Ukraine can go on while still holding 80% of their land and they keep Odesa so they keep a port for shipping and access to the Black Sea. Ukraine will always have their agricultural sector which is a large portion of their economy but they should also become be of Europe’s largest military hardware producers by partnering with existing companies like they are doing with Rheinmetall. They also should take what they learned from this war and be the leader in drone warfare which is an area where even we lack in the U.S. We could very well just buy drones and EW systems from Ukraine.

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It's not a mineral deal, it's a mineral robbery.

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Cope harder!

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Ribbentrop

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Molotov!