Trump's Flagrant Betrayal of Ukraine Is an Outrage
The president's outright betrayal of Ukraine shows the U.S. is in a precarious position
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who could have possibly seen this coming
Yeah but Kamala sat for pictures with Liz Cheney, so.
We get this.
And we'd all rather have trump than republican lite!
Yeah. yeh yeh yeh yeh
No people voted for the full republican not the lite version as expected by everyone except the dems.
Yet people still complain it's the voters fault for a party failing to get people to vote for them by being a tiny bit better version of the other party
A “tiny bit better” huh?
No. A world apart.
Only in optics. Hell she was running on republican policys
Sure.
To be fair, there was about sixty years of moderate Dems enabling Republican treason that were all necessary to make this moment possible. Her campaign deserves a ton of blame and none of the people who worked for it should ever be trusted with any kind of responsibility ever again, but in a better environment them being stubborn self sabotaging idiots wouldn't have been nearly as big a calamity as it's been.
Not disagreeing with the characterization per se, only that on Election Day we had one of two choices and some vocal posters indicated they would be choosing . . poorly. One hopes they have a better understanding of that choice now as the last two years have shown it in high relief.
They had four years prior. What makes these extra two years any different? Stupid is as stupid does.
Not to defend Trump action but he never promised to help Ukraine
Ripping away Starlink was a betrayal, was it not?
Trump has always been a Russian puppet. So the surprise was him waiting this long between attempts to get Ukraine to surrender. He last tried a year ago.
Maga are traitors.
It is disgusting but it is not betrayal. Trump was never really against Russia and never for Ukraine. He is a selfish person who want to enrich himself. If he believe he will make more money from Russia he do it
Not the first time musk has done it to Ukraine
Right. Fair. Trump was always Ukraine's enemy.
Right now America is betraying Ukraine by letting Trump do this.
Unfortunately, there's nothing our political system can do about it at least until the midterms, but hopefully we'll see some real change after that.
Just promised to end the war on day one. No biggy.
He should be held accountable for it.
To be fair, orangeboi never said how. Though the “day one” bit was and is clearly bullshit.
We signed an agreement with Russia and Ukraine, promising Ukraine military defence in exchange for them giving up their nukes. Russia also promised to never attack Ukraine. We made an agreement that we're morally obligated to follow.
Nope. The Budapest memorandum does not promise military defense in any way. The closest that it promises to military defense is that the US (and all other parties to the agreement) is required to submit a report to the UN security council if Ukraine gets nuked.