Comment Re:Calling it "denazification" makes no sense (Score 1) 185
His clumsy sharing blame comment is referring to what I described as not triggering your excessively paranoid neighbor.
You keep making these claims of Trump pulling off brilliant diplomacy by making all his pro Russia / anti Ukraine comments. The problem is, there's never been any payoff for us on this front. All Trump's coddling of Putin has brought us is a Republican base who is increasingly fond of Putin and increasingly anti Ukraine. This has been taking shape consistently in the polls for years now where the war in Ukraine was initially very well supported by Republicans. Not so much any more.
That was the Democrats ambushing him, telling him to press Tump on some issues on TV. Trump and Vance wanted such disagreements to be worked out behind closed doors. Even Ukranian diplomats cringed when Zelenski started to negotiate in public.
Haha, what? For starters, cite a source on the blaming of the Democrats.
After that, of course Zelenski was asking for more help, he's always doing that. His country is under siege by a much larger aggressor, if he wasn't always seeking outside help in defending his country he'd be an awful president.
Zelenski doing what he always does and what everyone should have expected him to be doing isn't a decent reason for Trump to undermine a wartime president defending his democracy against a US adversary at a very public and televised event for the whole world to see. Not even close.
I'm giving you the facts. Debunking the notion that the Orange dude is with Putin. Its his fake friend negotiating style.
No, you're trying to deflect from Trump's ample anti Ukraine comments and actions by talking about the actions of others. Nothing you brought up has anything to do with what Trump has been saying or doing towards Ukraine and we have yet to see any kind of benefit after quite a few years from this "fake friend negotiating style".
If Trump's consistent and long running praise of Putin and undermining of Ukraine was some sort of diplomatic ploy it should have been given up on years ago given that it not only hasn't been working but significant parts of his American base are buying into it.
Again, you are ill informed. He is fine with arming Ukraine, he is not OK with paying for it. He thinks the EU should be taking the lead on the cost of this war. Notice how all is well now that EU will be buying weapons for Ukraine rather than the US donating them. Trump is transactional like that. Same for the showmanship before and after the mining deal.
No, he's been playing games even with the availability of weapons since his last term in office and has most definitely been doing it this term. Furthermore, cutting off financial assistance from Ukraine is immensely undermining their war effort. It is a huge step back in America's support of Ukraine's war effort.
As for your last bit, Trump has successfully moved the Republican party from fiscal conservatism to populism. The budget cuts he proposed were largely just him going after anything he could tag as "woke" and didn't produce even close to the savings that were promised. They were clearly more concerned with the ideology of programs rather than cost/value and that can be seen in the ridiculous number of rehires they've had to do. They aren't even evaluating the need for these positions before letting these people go and they aren't because they don't care about any of that. They just want to get rid of "woke" shit because it makes their base happy and so here we are after all kinds of cuts to government, slated to be trillions of dollars more in debt when pretty much everybody agrees our debt level is too high.
You can even see this populism in his immigration policies. There's no attempt to address the causes of illegal immigration, he's just going for maximum optics and punishment for his target number one because that's what makes his base happy. We never hear a word about the American employers that are the very literal reason these people are here to begin with which is why his policies will not solve this problem.