[Politics] Russia invades Ukraine (24/02/2022)

Zeberdi said:

Dream on.

He u-turned on speaking to Zelenksyy because it suited his narcissistic focus on being “in” with high level talks particularly as Starmer didn’t speak to Harris which I maintain was a mistake. Harris is just as much the likely next President as Trump.

Trump is never going to be ‘open-minded’ about Ukraine, he is a Putin appeaser and any relationship between Trump and Zelenskyy is going to be characterised by Trump putting pressure on him to concede territory to Putin in some Trump-Putin favoured peace plan much in the same way, his Peace Plan for Israel sold the Palestinians down the river by agreeing that a 3rd of the West Bank be given to Israel.

Trump needs to be kept away from imposing any settlements in Ukraine - it is up to Zelenskyy what deal if any he makes with Russia, I don’t care how “open-minded” he pretends to be nor do I read anything into him agreeing to meet with Zelenskyy other than it is access for him to push Putin’s agenda for Ukraine as he always has done.

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raymondo said:

I hope to goodness that Europe/UK have plans of how to continue support for Ukraine... (without US involvement/ support) if Trump gets in.
Trump can agree what he wants with Putin, and Ukraine can tell them to f**k off, but would at least need continued support from Europe in that case.
Scary and fragile times.

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raymondo said:

I hope to goodness that Europe/UK have plans of how to continue support for Ukraine... (without US involvement/ support) if Trump gets in.
Trump can agree what he wants with Putin, and Ukraine can tell them to f**k off, but would at least need continued support from Europe in that case.
Scary and fragile times.

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Triggaaar said:

I don't care what it costs, we have to support them.

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Zeberdi said:

Agreed that goes without saying.

But if Trump wins, we need to be prepared to do it without the US.

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seagullwedgee said:

I knew the US had made a significant contribution to arming Ukraine over the last 31 months, but the precise scale of their contribution, relative to EU nations, has really has shocked me.

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Igzilla said:

Hopefully, the plan Zelensky shows Trump will have a few crucial details either missing or 'accidentally' wrong.

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Eric the meek said:

And need to stand firm in the face of all sorts of threats, veiled and unveiled, from Russia to dissuade us from helping Ukraine.

One of them is still 15 nautical miles off Margate.

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Zeberdi said:

Quite. However, Trump could pull the US out of NATO, and even if he doesn’t, he has questioned numerous times why the US should get involved in a war in Europe against Russia when it “doesn’t benefit the US”.

Bearing that in mind we should also be aware that the UK’s nuclear deterrent is a ‘£172bn pile of bricks’ because we can’t use it without US approval and those planned to be stored again at RAF Lakenheath belong to the US..

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A1X said:

I know I bang on about Orban a lot but f***ing Hell



This isn’t just his usual nonsense but basically a NATO and EU member saying “well, Vlad, I can tell you Budapest is just lovely, you should definitely pay us a visit…”

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Triggaaar said:

That's mind blowing. It simply says 'Hungary is yours for free if you want it' to Putin, and that makes no sense, so what's the alternative? Maybe it's a simple lie intended to criticise Zelenskyy and support Putin.

Orban needs to go.

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A1X said:

And let’s not forget, Trump recently cited Orban as the world leader he most admired.

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A1X said:

I know I bang on about Orban a lot but f***ing Hell



This isn’t just his usual nonsense but basically a NATO and EU member saying “well, Vlad, I can tell you Budapest is just lovely, you should definitely pay us a visit…”

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Triggaaar said:

It's difficult to imagine that Putin doesn't have something on Trump

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Gabbiano said:

After all the scandals he's come through already, how bad can it be?

I remember rumours of the Russians having footage of him with prostitutes in Moscow, but the Stormy Daniels case hasn't affected his base.

Unless it's rock solid evidence of some federal crime...

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