It was not an energy ceasefire. It was a gift to Putin. A White House official told Axios that, as Trump understands it, the term means only that Russia and Ukraine stop attacking each other’s oil refineries—and that this is what Washington expects Ukraine to do. Ukraine has one refinery, while Russia has 38, of which 21 have been targeted by Ukrainian drones.

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    I mean those datacenter hits hurt the participation levels on both their websites, of course they would both retaliate against Ukraine.

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    I wonder what back doors NATO equipment has that the US can use to turn off equipment.

    If NATO decides to go rogue and turn on the US, I doubt their equipment will work for very long.

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    Fuck the wine… Canadians are getting seized at the border. Do NOT go to America. It sucks there. There’s nothing good there. And you could die there.

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      Do you have any info on people getting seized at the border? I am traveling to the US at the end of November. I have heard rumors, but not much concrete.

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        I don’t know I live/am trapped in the US and I don’t feel comfortable encouraging it.

        Do you look “white”? Then maybe but even seeing myself have to honestly make that stipulation makes me nauseous and unconfident to say it is safe here for anyone.

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        I don’t. But I wouldn’t risk it either. Nothing in America is worth it.

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        There’s been multiple Australians accosted, held hostage without any warrant, then sent back.

        Dont go to the US. Especially after the midterm bloodbath to come.

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      No really, they have arrest quotas and a disconnect from reality, with a dash of bigoted asshole. That guy cares about his bottom line and nothing else, you’ll get thrown in a camp. It’s not worth the risk.

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    Gonna be hard to be against China in this envorment. I fine with trade with them. It this situation is becoming impossible unless euro and Canada significantly bolster ties.

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      The whole world is using Ukraine as a training ground. Yes we’re technically siding with the oppressed… but we cannot truthfully say that 100% of the motivation is protecting Ukrainian sovereignty and/or mitigating Russian aggression. EoD militaries need soldiers with combat experience; especially given how rapidly fpv drones have changed the landscape of warfare.

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      China is literally keeping slaves, openly and without shame. They’ve taken Tibet and Taiwan. Like… let’s not be cool with China, yeah?

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        I mean the two biggest economies in the world you can’t just ignore them.

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        They’ve not taken Taiwan idk where you got that idea, and America uses slave labor and side with slaver country’s frequently as well, if the aren’t openly attacking us I don’t the issue with us selling from a country that isn’t any worse then America, if we don’t we won’t have much anyone to trade with unless a the global south suddenly decides trading with us is a good idea.

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      Yes this is a good point to bring up, it is easy to forget after seeing Trump backstab good people over and over again that Trump will backstab bad people too if he is pressured into doing so and the bad people begin to be appearing to lose.

      I genuinely have no doubt Trump wants Putin to win but this is made irrelevant by the fact that Trump is a massive fucking coward who pathologically cannot be caught being on the loser side and will always betray everybody around him to jump ship to the winning side. Just read about how pathologically Trump is incapable of losing at casual golf to other people, it is seriously fucking deranged… and then apply that to Trump being cornered into being one of Putin’s last real allies and it is obvious he is going to backstab Putin too if we bully Trump enough.

      So… I make sure to do my part by calling Trump a loser for siding with losers.

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        I genuinely have no doubt Trump wants Putin to win

        How’s that even relevant?

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          It explains every one of Trump’s (and Vance’s) decisions with regards to Ukraine.

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      Just be good little vassals and do what daddy tells you and you’ll be fine.

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        People on here agree at large about trump being bad. The article is written in a way as to swear in the reader into being against Trump’s America’s actions and defending Ukraine. I feel like a more factual, cold perspective is sufficient. I do not need to be more mad. Do you want us to tie of a heart attack or aneurisma from unfettered rage.

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              No, America is generally, and with all due respect you are specifically if you think we are in the middle of anything less than an existential crisis, so like, now isn’t the time for whatever sensibilities of yours that were offended by this article.

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                Ok, what am I supposed to do about america? What is the use of terrorizing those already in despair? Why use sites that are this difficult to use. Why share what is unhealthy with those unlikely to benefit from it? You are not posting public in truth social but in a left wing cesspool with low hopes for the future.

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          The article is written in a way as to swear in the reader into being against Trump’s America’s actions and defending Ukraine. I feel like a more factual, cold perspective is sufficient. I do not need to be more mad.

          Speak for yourself, I harbor my anger for the injustices against Ukraine as a source of motivation and a way of holding true to my values, what do you accomplish with your inert, emotionless and cold perspective other than to cynically doubt the conviction of others?

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            Staying sane. And myriad pop-ups and intrusive ads that prevent you from seeing more than 10 words at a time(on mobile) doesn’t make it a joy to read either.

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              Can you please explain to me what is sane about hyperfixating on the fact that a website has annoying ads whilst ignoring any kind of introspection about an actual honest to goodness fullscale war happening that can and should be stopped right this second?

              You think it is rational or sane to distort what is relevant to you in this conversation to such a comical degree??

              Yes the ads are annoying, good point, now grow up.

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                The site not being ad riddled and freezing after 10s makes that difficult. This isn’t about being immature, but expecting some minimum comfort.

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                  This isn’t about being immature, but expecting some minimum comfort.

                  We are talking about a war currently happening and you have the nerve to say that?

                  You are a child aren’t you.

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      I don’t think it’s about treating China like an enemy but more about becoming over reliant on them. If we get on their bad side (which we problaby will at some point) how fucked are we if they stop trade with us?

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        I mean you have to trade with one or the other preferably both. They are by far the largest economies in the world. What do you replace them with? You can’t, sure trade with everyone else also but unless you want to severly limit your market you don’t have a choice.

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        Well the problem with a global economy is there actually aren’t that many people to purchase from you. If you lose your biggest customer there isn’t one up the street.

        China has been trying to decouple just as hard as the west has from it. They can only get so far from one another.

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        I would imagine we would be pretty fucked right now if they decided to stop trading with us, being our second largest trade partner, lol.