Trump actually couldn’t order that. The hundreds of billions of dollars in frozen assets are held in banks in Europe. Only 4 billion or so here.
You have some good points on Ukraine. My only concern is the stalemate this war has been in the last two years. Ukraine certainly has the right to continue. It’s just sad to see the lives lost. The only way this is going to come to a conclusion is if additional weapons and manpower are provided to push Russia out.
What a stupid comment. Not everyone that supports Trump agrees with everything he does.
Biden was weak, was always afraid of Russia's fake red line. If he gave Ukraine the support they needed during the first year they could have pushed russia out.
We have ties to Europe. Not Ukraine. Ukraine is not Germany, France, UK...it's not even Poland. It's not even in NATO.
Even the claim that Trump supports Russia is idiotic. Some people got broken in 2016. Sadly, even nine years later, they are still unwell.
This is silly neocon revisionism. It's *always* we didn't do enough.
Quit being a little girl. So afraid of hurting russias feelings.
Quit pretending you can stop a regional superpower from conquering a neighbor if only you spend more money.
It is difficult to quantify ties. Ukraine is adjacent to multiple very long term allies. Japan/S.korea are very strong allies but only since ww2. The point you should be taking away from this is not what rating each ally has on a scale of 1-10, but what the result of not supporting an ally when it only requires weapons and money(proxy) vs one where it requires death of Americans. What do you expect America to do when China masses 10 million troops on the N. Korea/S. Korea border if they can't stomach a proxy war? What signal does it relay? China clearly sees we have zero resolve even for minimal commitment.
I am a huge supporter of almost every Trump stance. But this bullshit makes me really question why he is doing this. I have heard zero substantial excuses for bailing on Ukraine and it feels very suspicious. It definitely doesn't reflect in the least bit what I think America stands for and i cant stomach it. I definitely wonder if Russia gave Tulsi cash. I now really can imagine there is a video out there with trump and golden showers.
You realize you're talking about Donald J Trump, right? The man has never let "I can't do that" get in the way. This is Mr. Build The Wall And Make Mexico Pay For It. He could walk out there tomorrow and say Russia withdraws to 2014 lines or he tells the Europeans to liquidate Russia's assets to pay for more modern weaponry for Ukraine. He could tell NATO members to liquidate Russian assets and beef up their militaries so they can "pay their bills" as he says.
Consider for a moment that my comment wasn't referring to every Trump supporter, but the fact that many of his supporters are supporting Russia solely because Trump, and increasingly conservative media, does.
2016... when Trump called everyone on the planet a low energy loser, except Putin. When he hired Paul Manafort to be his campaign manager? That year?
Relax, we all know that you've been super critical.
An ally of an ally isn't anything. It does sound like a great way to draw the US into shit we don't care about though. Washington rightly warned against getting drawn into European affairs.
Around the time he was telling Europe that relying on Russian energy was bad and sending ukraine weapons
You mean Washington as in the president from 250 years ago? Obviously a national hero/icon, but I'm not sure if we should be taking geopolitical advice from him. Surely he had no idea about the dynamics of the modern world? Wonder if he had any concept of what Asia would look like in 2025.
Sending Ukraine weapons that they couldn't use against Russians.
www.businessinsider.com
This is really bad angle of Washington's Farewell and the context of the time it was written. Washington's warning re: becoming entangled in European alliances and war had more to do with the fragile state of the fledging US Republic and its inability to properly defend itself against multiple European armies if the tide of a European war turned against us and our allies.
Forget about Donald Trump. The Europeans are much more afraid of Russia and have been for years. Why haven’t *they* done it by now? Do you think there might be a reason why liquidating those assets might be bad other than making Russia mad?
Classic Dem response. There is no middle ground. You don't agree 100% with us, then we'll label you as a bigot, racists, Nazi, Communist lovers.
I said critical, not super critical. Regardless, knowing your position on things it would never be enough for you. You're right though. I need to relax. No reason to get upset and angry when I see the stupid posts by you and Bua.
Not a democrat!
1. I label you those things not because you don't agree with "us" 100%, but because the things you post align with those views.
We know you're new here (or same old member with a new username) but Irish1 is one of the most level headed, common sense, rational posters on the whole site regardless of topic. He has never said anything that would lead one to believe he aligns with bigotry, KKK or Nazis.
False.
Counter proposal...people here step their game up and actually know what they are talking about so they can have more engaging discussions.
I appreciate it, but don't worry about it. I put him on ignore. First one for me. With Toronto we may get at it some, but at least there's a level of respect. Bua has no respect for anyone from the other side.