State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine energy grid restoration
Summary
The State Department has ended a major USAID initiative to restore Ukraine’s energy grid, which has suffered continuous Russian attacks.
The move, seen as a signal of declining U.S. support, also includes downsizing USAID’s presence in Ukraine from 64 to just 8 personnel.
Officials warn this could leave Ukraine vulnerable, especially during winter, and reduce oversight of financial aid.
Additionally, a financial sector reform program has been terminated. The decision is part of the broader Trump administration policies shifting away from strong U.S. involvement in Ukraine.
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"we can't have a woman in the Whitehouse. She'd be too emotional"
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Don't be silly, anger isn't an emotion, duh.
A drama queen would be too much for sure, a drama king however....yes that it!
Fuck every single person that voted for this doofus rapist shit head. Furthermore, fuck every registered voter that decided to sit this one out because, "reasons". Our country alone arguably deserves the fallout this coward shitstain will stir up, the rest of the world absolutely does not.
I really thought his handling of the covid pandemic (among everything else) would have been a wakeup call to Americans that he is beyond dumb as fuck. He clearly and plainly fucked it every single step of the way. I have since tempered my expectations of my fellow countrymen. Apathy, racism, ignorance and incuriosity will doom this institution.
I lost faith in my fellow Americans the day we elected the fuckstick the first time.
Same here. I gained a little back when we rejected his ass last time but after the ensuing bullshit from conservatives during Biden's term, lost it again. I had a feeling trump would win. It's sad but I'm just gonna try and keep my hopes low for the us from now on. I think we will never be anywhere near the top on any front ever again and this is the point the decline is starting to hit hard
he only lost last time, because the republicans rigging wasnt enough to counter 81million votes for biden, this time we lost like almost 7mil voters.
Yeah, everything you are saying is why America is a lost cause. Even when we can choose a non-fascist, people won't necessarily care
he’s not dumb, he’s a businessman. Like all successful businessmen the only deciding cards are: resources (material or immaterial) and power.
I’m only sad about the fact that there’s absolutely no signs of diplomacy from no one’s end and that’s not a good sign
Lol, he's a terrible businessman because he's so dumb. He's a decent con artist and has always had enough family money to bounce back from his many failures.
hes also a lazy con man, if he actually invested his inheritence, he wouldnt needed to resort to scams, he would be 100bn richer by now.
He's not a businessman, he's a failed constantly filling for bankruptcy conman posing as a businessman.
Doesn't matter if he is a businessman or not, he's not looking for the best deal for the US only himself and with the power he yields any deal that benefits him personally is a good deal, even if it screws the country up. In fact he's utterly incapable of thinking about anything but himself because he's a narcissist.
God fucking dammit.
You fucking idiot motherfucking rapist orange shithead. And your ketamine boy.
Don't forget the arse-linking, couch fucking lackey.
If only we all could.
The Toddler-in-chief hoping that daddy Putin will pat him on the head and tell him what a good boy he is.
Because we have evidence from before Trump was on the political stage that he might be a Russian agent. This has been a topic since the 1980s.
This is something that actually predates his presidential runs.
Why? They're American Oligarchs. They've effectively recreated the economic systems in Russia, except they have the actual power, because Trump is an idiot and incapable of strategic planning unlike Putin. So while Putin is able to maintain control on his own, Trump is instead controlled by everyone around him. Exactly as the Republican party has been saying about everyone else for years, because everything they say is projection. If they constantly claim their enemies are doing the same thing without any evidence, they convince the mainstream public that doesn't have the time, education, or desire to think critically about politics, that it doesn't actually matter when it comes out that they're doing it, because "The Dems have been doing it all along".
Yea I think he's just a dick.
I was worried there for a second lol.
It could also be both; Trump has ties to Russia and there have been open statements by Russian officials about Trump; specifically Patrushev saying
"The election campaign is over. To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them."It would be awfully convenient that Russians are openly speaking on what Trump does and does not owe to them without some kind of motive; whether or not it's a separate "plot" or similar one I guess is up for debate though. I would have 0 issue believing that money is flowing through Russia as well. When you have billions, there aren't too many restrictions on what you can and can't do.
Russia, if you're listening, go fuck yourself.
Because there is very little to be gained by those American billionaires in this issue, so why would he pull this insane stunt? There is a lot to be gained by Russia, though. There is also the constant stream of verbal praise Trump has for Putin that he doesn't show for any other person except maybe Musk (who is the richest person on the planet).
If you systematically ask "who benefits?" for every single political thing Trump has done, the most consistent answer has always been "Russia." Trump does things that act against Russia's interests even more rarely than he does things that act against his own interests.
what news have you been watching, TRUMP have always worked for russia one way or another, i feel like your just trolling and commenting with disengeniously and out of your behind. if you say fox, and right wing sources , those are not sources.
Two things can be true
Elon is also connected to Russia (and China)
Russia said that, but then also why would Elon turn off Starlink during crucial military operations in 2023? Shits and giggles?
The OG article I linked also says that Russia and China are in contact with each other. May Musk, Elon's mother, lives in Shanghai and travels to Beijing frequently. She has pictures on Chinese social media having dinner with both Chinese and Russian diplomats. Is that also just coincidence?
What the fuck are you on about?
For the record, I do think that Putin manipulates Trump, and pretty brazenly at that, but I don't think that he controls him. Trump's ego is far too bloated for that.
I meant pretty much exactly what my metaphor implies - Trump is weak and insecure and desperate for affirmation, and he idolizes Putin, so he wants his approval.
AND Trump is also greedy and self-absorbed and trying to please his greedy and self-absorbed cronies and patrons - that's painfully obviously why he's trying to swing this mineral rights deal alongside trying to effectively hand Ukraine to Putin.
It's possible for more than one thing to be true at the same time.
A bloated ego makes a person easier to control, not harder.
Here's the full text of what I said, including the part you inexplicably left out:
And that's specifically because, in point of fact, a bloated ego makes a person easier to manipulate, but not to "control." They reflexively rebel against direct control, because it's a threat to their ego, but they're relatively easily manipulated, because all anyone has to do is frame things in a way that will appeal to their ego.
Did you really not grasp the distinction I was making there?
Yes I really didn't, and it seems a little academic: both could be called forms of control.
The kind of control Putin exerts over Trump depends on Trump thinking he's in control, when he is most obviously to anyone with eyes, not.
On the other hand, Putin control Lukashenko, and Lukashenko knows it.
I don't pretend to know one way or the other.
He's clearly working for the benefit of Russia, but "asset" implies an official, essentially employer/employee relationship, and there's no knowing if that's the case or not.
Not that it much matters really - whether he's working for Russia's benefit because they literally own him or working for Russia's benefit because he's a desperately insecure narcissist who idolizes Putin, it works out to pretty much the same thing in the long run.
Krasnov Trump
Por Que No Los Dos?
Trump is a Russian asset. We knew this 8 years ago, and we know it today.
he has been one for decades, all the way before the collapse of the ussr, they saw how useful he was to launder money.
The Orange Turd is a traitor just like the people who voted for him.
This was the plan from the beginning. Krasnov and co just needed an nice stage to humiliate him and use it for "reason" to revoke this. Traitor in chief. Utterly disgusting
Why are you trying to imply that Trump's allegiance with Russia is anything other than voluntary? Trump is a cunt in his own right, and part of that cunt-hood is that he's a fanboi of Putin and just flat-out likes Russia better than he does Europe.
There's a saying that goes "you can't rape the willing." Frankly, I think you and the other guy you were arguing with are both right: from Russia's perspective, Trump is a patsy and an asset. From Trump's perspective, Russia is a valued friend and ally.
At least one of his billionairs seems to be also a Russian asset. I mean you really think that Putin is not playing the cords here? Their army may be a paper tiger (although quantity is also a quality). But what Russia and in the past the Soviet Union are masters at is psychops., information warfare and intimidation and estortion. And above all Russia has a mobster style ruling. Basically what you see now in the US.
I'm sure you would
Didn't Krasnov Trump say he wants killing to stop. why is he killing people by crippling energy grid restoration.
Damn is it nice to see people upset about this.
I literally just got banned from a community cause thsi didn't matter enough, only Gaza. Like, why can't we support saving lives in multiple places
I'd like to note, the community was a politics board on lemmy.ml. You could breathe the wrong way and they'd ban you over there.
Yeah they banned me but kept up the comment talking about how democrats would dismember every Gaza baby to keep the Ukraine war going
So, I'm kinda glad I'm not going there anymore haha
Who is people? I feel like that word is doing a lot of work while in reality, noone cares. At least not anyone that van make a difference.
Yeah, you and I are outraged about it but do you think trump cares? So far there have been hundreds of protesters, sometimes even thousands, whoooohhh, cheeto must be shaking on his fat ass. Quite a few of them were angry cat ladies doing weird dances, and I remember seeing a woman having difficulty trying to say "fuck trump" in public... Yeah, these people surely will make a difference now!
Wake me up when a million protesters in each and every of the major cities in the entire country paralyze the country for a week or so. Wake me up when Democrats organize something that will completely gridlock the US government until Cheeto steps down or something
Until then, I just don't want to hear about "people are really getting angry now!!" No they're not. They don't care, politicians don't care, Democrats don't care.
Good job at being a stick in the mud.
Keep up ruining the mood, everyone appreciates it
You're missing the point that none of "some people made sad face" is going to change anything and I am just flabbergasted that nobody is doing something that will actually enact change. Singing won't change shit, writing on Lemmy won't change shit and in case you ask me what I'm doing, I'm not an American, thankfully.
Americans have to fix this, but before anything, they have to want to change something and from the looks of it, not more than a fraction of a percent want change, and that fraction is for a good part crazies that go singing and dancing, thinking they can enact change that way.
So no, nothing will change
Sorry, but that is the reality we live in now
I agree with you fully.
But I had literally just been arguing about how this actually matters with other people on lemmy. Some people absolutely will not agree on saving Ukrainian lives, so when I saw it on another post I expressed how it was just nice to see someone else write about it.
You had to come in immediately and shit on it for whatever reason.
I never said you were wrong. I just called you an ass
you were banned for a reason lol, you basically said ukraine doesnt matter and only gaza, both matters. if you are talking from an pro-israeli standpoint, sounds like you are, which is also pretty wrong.
Da fuck are you talking about
Now your just gunna make up arguments to fight about?
Bone spurs.
"Reeee zelenskyy hurt my fee fees! I get to destroy his entire country's economy now!"
Not just the economy. He's also getting a lot of people killed, injured and traumatized.
Russia must be celebrating; USAID was a key pillar in Ukraine’s resilience.
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Trump just wants peace. He wants the killing to stop. And he wants to cut life-saving aid to impoverished countries. And Medicaid.
And he wants Canada and Panama and Greenland and if Europe doesn't do everything he says he wants it to be vulnerable to Russian attack. He's a man of peace.
The world's leading supertoddler.
isn’t this the effect of cutting such funds in late January?
Hi, sorry. I'm new here, what does your rainbow pentagon thing next to your name mean? Cheers.
hi new here, nice to meet you. I don’t know what you mean, to me these pictures are not shown
Probably, and this would be the convenient timing of 5800 USAID canceled connects over last weekend.
Vlad is Vladislav
Vladimir is Vova
yeah, weird, i know
To add, if you didn't know that, Zelensky and Putin are both Vovas, but the start of their names are spelled a bit different, Volodymyr vs Vladimir, volo vs vla, following ukrainian and russian takes at the same root name. The thing that doesn't make sense tho is that the end of their names, dymyr\dimir is spelled exactly the same, and is not a marker of dialects, but rather Putin having an old soviet-like transliteration of a slavic name while Zelensky has a more modern one that follows the actual way it's spelled. A probable reason for why the old version is like that is that russian and ukrainian have their У sounding very different to English Y, like 'ugh', and using 'I' avoided such association. I'm not a linguist at all, so take it with a grain of salt.