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me, about to post this poll: ok, im not going to explain in the comments. if they wanna know they can go find out
comment: hey what is this?
me: no. resist. you prepared for this.
comment: *explains it badly*
me: ok well you're close but it's actually a lot more like-- wait god damn it
comment: hey what is this?
me: no. resist. you prepared for this.
comment: *explains it badly*
me: ok well you're close but it's actually a lot more like-- wait god damn it
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https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-told-zelensky-he-wasnt-responsible-for-weapons-holdup-f684444b
theres something tragic, but also very funny (but mostly just tragic), about the way that trump's weird neutrality on russia/ukraine seems to have genuinely been just pure naivety
he came into it thinking, it must be both sides. we need everyone to come to the negotiating table as equals, and we have to stop villainizing russia if we actually want to end this war. so we're done sending weapons to ukraine, so that we can be a fair mediator.
and then he did. and russia held up negotiations, and broke every agreement, and made it impossible to broker for peace.
and now he's sending weapons to ukraine again.
like after months of trying his radical outsider bothsidesism approach and getting nowhere, he's finally realized what every diplomat, strategist, politician, and citizen outside the russian propaganda bubble, have known all along: russia is the problem here. and whether they can make peace or not, appeasement and neutrality aren't going to help. they won't bring russia to the table, and they won't stop the bombs and gunfire outside of ukrainian homes.
sometimes, conventional wisdom is conventional for a reason. sometimes, the establishment is right. that's what trump has just learned, whether he realizes it or not. either way, his followers definitely won't. and their base, unprincipled urge to overthrow and subvert and "drain the swamp" will lead to a dozen more of these massively lethal and extraordinarily costly exercises in confirming what we should already know.
and let me make this explicit: naivety is the charitable reading. if you read this and thought, "he's not naive; he's duplicitous," then you're probably right. maybe he always knew, and just thought appeasing russia would be better for his own political career, or his own financials, than it turned out to be. maybe it was just as good for him as he expected, and something tipped the scales. i don't know. my first thought was naivety; but if you think that is, itself, a naive assumption, then i won't argue.
theres something tragic, but also very funny (but mostly just tragic), about the way that trump's weird neutrality on russia/ukraine seems to have genuinely been just pure naivety
he came into it thinking, it must be both sides. we need everyone to come to the negotiating table as equals, and we have to stop villainizing russia if we actually want to end this war. so we're done sending weapons to ukraine, so that we can be a fair mediator.
and then he did. and russia held up negotiations, and broke every agreement, and made it impossible to broker for peace.
and now he's sending weapons to ukraine again.
like after months of trying his radical outsider bothsidesism approach and getting nowhere, he's finally realized what every diplomat, strategist, politician, and citizen outside the russian propaganda bubble, have known all along: russia is the problem here. and whether they can make peace or not, appeasement and neutrality aren't going to help. they won't bring russia to the table, and they won't stop the bombs and gunfire outside of ukrainian homes.
sometimes, conventional wisdom is conventional for a reason. sometimes, the establishment is right. that's what trump has just learned, whether he realizes it or not. either way, his followers definitely won't. and their base, unprincipled urge to overthrow and subvert and "drain the swamp" will lead to a dozen more of these massively lethal and extraordinarily costly exercises in confirming what we should already know.
and let me make this explicit: naivety is the charitable reading. if you read this and thought, "he's not naive; he's duplicitous," then you're probably right. maybe he always knew, and just thought appeasing russia would be better for his own political career, or his own financials, than it turned out to be. maybe it was just as good for him as he expected, and something tipped the scales. i don't know. my first thought was naivety; but if you think that is, itself, a naive assumption, then i won't argue.
The Wall Street Journal
Trump to Resume Sending Weapons to Ukraine
The U.S. will send additional defensive arms because Moscow is hitting Kyiv “very hard,” the president said.
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can we make it rude to post a link to another social media site without including a screenshot? can we stop expecting everyone to have an account on everything? normalize the courtesy screenshot maybe? a polite request. thank u
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Why do red hot/orange hot metals from forges look so biteable/lickable? Is this an autism thing?
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