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The debt isn’t his fault but neither did he do anything to rein it in. Other than a few libertarians in Congress it seems like no politicians want to touch it because they would likely be voted out of office just attempting to cut back. But we are quickly approaching the point where we will be forced to do something or experience a financial collapse of some sort. My guess would be this happens in 2-3 years.

The fact that a jerkoff like Stern was paid $100 million a year is a good example of everything that is wrong in this country.

I don’t think anybody expected these secondary sanctions to go through.

Brazil always had potential but then they go and screw things up by electing the commie Lula.

Brazil is going to hell in a hand basket. Trump needs to crush them economically.

I would have told Zelensky that this war was a mistake and the US was no longer in a position to continue financing it. Then if Zelensky balked at this I would tell him to talk to the EU about military assistance but that in any event the US was done. Doing this might not go over well with some people but it’s preferable to keeping this expensive and deadly war going. I’m not a fan of risking WW3 over Ukraine like some on here are.

The President is commander in chief of the armed forces and has the power to stop any war that he wants.

There’s been one war right after another none of which has benefitted the US. On the contrary these wars have put us into a dangerous economic situation with $37 trillion in unpayable debt. All of these wars were wars of empire and had nothing to do with our national security interests.

When it was announced that a meeting between Putin and Trump was already agreed upon I assumed most of these details had already been worked out. Guess not.

No the 90% figure was also the approximate % of Russians living in Crimea. It was never going to be allowed out of the Russian fold. If Ukraine actually thought it realistic that they would keep Crimea it just goes to show you how delusional they are.

Sure he’s done some very good things. But the 2 biggest issues with me were stopping endless wars and stopping open door immigration and deporting illegals. The other issues were insignificant compared to those 2. It’s only now that he seems serious about ending this proxy war against Russia.

It began with the Maidan Uprising not Putin taking Crimea. Crimea voted like 90% to stay with Russia. Nobody in their right mind ever expected Russia to give it up.

I was referring to the situation that existed prior to the start of the war. Ukraine was totally played by the corrupt globalists and you seem to have difficulty in acknowledging this obvious fact.

Brilliant move!

Well it’s hardly only me he’s gonna lose if he doesn’t stay on track with his campaign promises.

Oops maybe it was Donahue and not Kellogg. Either way this was seen as being overly provocative to Russia.

This is what provoked the talks about nukes. Putin said any attack on Kaliningrad would be an attack upon mother Russia itself and tactical nukes would be used to secure it if necessary.

Russia’s Kaliningrad would fall quickly in a war with NATO, U.S. general says
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-s-kaliningrad-would-fall-quickly-in-a-war-with-nato-us-general-says/ar-AA1INJC1

Some are reporting that Putin is refusing any meeting that includes Zelensky. Putin is tired of screwing around and expects certain demands to be met. The globalist deep state doesn’t want this to end and will do whatever it can to sabotage an agreement. So Trump will have to be resolute in pushing this through if it’s going to happen. Trump needs a win here so I remain hopeful.

I hate to admit it but I was starting to lose faith in Trump and thought he was going neocon on us. But if he manages to pull this off all is forgiven (well mostly all lol). Trump is at the point now of either ending this thing or be forced to approve tens of billions in new military aid to Ukraine. Let’s get this thing done.

Ukraine had it made with abundant natural resources and an ideal situation sitting between East & West where they could collect $2 billion a year in transit fees for Russian oil and gas going to Europe. All they had to do was remain neutral.

But they were played by corrupt globalist forces and are now a welfare state reduced to begging for money. The US doesn’t just pay for their military they pay to run the government itself, pensions and everything else. The Ukrainian people have shown themselves to be too stupid to have their own country. What freedom do they have now? They will just be another economic dependency of the US and EU.