The amazing thing is that while Europeans are slapping themselves on the back for their dealings with Trump, what he has done is take sanctions on Russia off the table and put giving Ukrainian territory to Russia very much on the table.
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Party pooper!
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Agreed. It's like something out of the Brothers Grimm. Absurd and terrible at the same time.
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Absolutely right. The USA are the corrupt traitors of the free world. What has become of this once so respected nation?
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"You will be Putin's Puppet." - HRC
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no
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Absolutely correct. Nothing has been achieved which benefits Ukraine at all. Like everything with Trump, it’s all bluster, in the hope that reality somehow falls into line.
European leaders need to remember that Trump has no interest in whether or not a peace is equitable.
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Don't be naive. They know who he is and what (and who) he represent. They're just buying time, if they're not fools.
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I don’t think anyone in Europe is slapping their backs or feels like they’ve fixed Trump. Europe has nothing but distrust for Trump and Russia. Nothing is finalised and essentially nothing has changed other than we are further from peace than we were before the Disaster in Alaska.
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Feels like a parallel universe sometimes with our media and politicians. We've gone from Trump threatening "serious" sanctions of Putin if he doesn't stop.. to just rewarding him with the offer of Ukrainian land he doesn't possess and zero consequences.
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It’s One Thing to Promise Ukraine Security. It’s Quite Another to Deliver.
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Europe,unprepared,restrained, territory threatened,required in relation to both Russia & US, is in reality more economically powerful than either when unified & organised. Reliance on US hegemony combined Russian kleptocracy. Relatively obvious situation from most Europeans perspectives.Empires fall
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So close to getting it
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The optimistic take is that European countries had very low expectations or just try to buy more time.
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Clearly neither Putin nor Trump has a clue about who the Ukrainians really are.Some Europeans might.Trump thinks he is bartering chunks of dirt. he truly does not care about people(even his own).The dirt chunks hold millions of Ukrainians and there is no way they’ll be abandoned by their countrymen
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To play the devil's advocate, by stringing Trump along they're also preventing him from lifting sanctions which he has been wanting to do for a while now. By keeping those sanctions in place the Russian economy continues to overheat and the war becomes more and more unsustainable over time for them.
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Philips, you know very well EU depends on US support, military equipment, sanctions, etc is massive. And yes, caused by ourselves. This Will not change on short period, but it Will over time. For know we need to deal with your unreliable and unstable GOP. Why so critical to EU lately?
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Very true.
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They feared worse.
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Totally agree. Wearing a suit and licking his arse achieved absolutely FU. Starmer/Mendolson got this totally wrong, Trump is not a friend.
