Mafia tactics, plain and simple. This is international racketeering.

  • @N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    753 months ago

    Trump is and always has been Putin’s bitch. We all know this. Don’t be surprised. It makes things harder, but it’s not the end.

    Russia has destroyed itself fighting this war, and Europe is waking up to the fact that it needs to defend itself collectively.

    • @futatorius@lemm.ee
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      Russia has depleted its store of draft-age young men. The Europeans need to band together and fund a proxy war to continue to bleed Russia. And rather than allow this looting by Trump, Ukraine should go scorched-earth and destroy all of Russia’s pipelines.

  • Lukas Murch
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    313 months ago

    I’m starting to think this Trump guy might not be a good man.

    /s

  • @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    According to the Telegraph, “Trump’s demands would amount to a higher share of Ukrainian GDP than reparations imposed on Germany at the Versailles Treaty, later whittled down at the London Conference in 1921, and by the Dawes Plan in 1924.”

    Hey, you remember that treaty that was so lopsided that it’s unconditionally condemned for adding to the hostility that lead to the buildup to WWII? Let’s do even more than that!

  • @droopy4096@lemmy.ca
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    this is called extortion and racketeering… citizens get sentenced for this, POTUSes get to be idolized by electorate…

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      3 months ago

      It says in the caption that it was a photo from 2019. Trump seems to have lost a considerable amount of weight in the years since then. So much so that during this last campaign I wondered if he was covering up some illness.

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    Well he’s solving it the American way: by making profit. Just waiting for him to say “Freedom isn’t free”.

  • IninewCrow
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    33 months ago

    Nobody mentioned the third option for Ukraine … making a deal with Russia instead.

    When your back is against the wall and you’re caught between a rock and a hard place … would you rather make a deal with the Devil, the Lord of Hell or Cthulhu, the God of the Underworld?

      • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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        Kind of like Saddam out of the smokey moldy hole. Or phak face with the black hawk helicopters and the sea burial. Not a lot of fun awaits assholes. Other assholes should pay attention. Let’s all see where this shit show ends. I hope I don’t end up as soap. But if I do please let it be some really hot Lady in need of special attention. Hey my lipids are high quality! Why would you just waste the heat. I think at this point I would love for a Republican to slip up and show us the furnaces were they plan to burn us naked and alive.