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.

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.

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.

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.

A camera on every home, all run through a program that makes it easily available to the cops, is a pretty big expansion on this.

Proudly helping turn America into a surveillance state! It doesn't matter that the crime rates of today are nothing compared to when we were children, we need this stuff to be safe!

Funny you're questioning my historical knowledge when Jews hadnt had a meaningfully large presence in Judea for over a thousand years prior to British policies designed to encourage Jews to move there. You might as well tell all of America it has to move back to their countries of origin as Native Americans have stronger claims on this country then the Jews had on Judea.

The Hebron massacre was Muslims lashing out at the exact British policies I was mentioning above. Certainly an awful event but also a very predictable one as people don't like to be supplanted by other cultures. You can read all about this here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

PLENTY of wars have ended without the establishment of buffer zones. Considering how handedly Israel defeated the invading Muslim armies every time they tried seizing this land was not some sort of absolute necessity. Never mind doing so without any kind of long term plan for the ample inhabitants is just a stupid idea bound to encourage long term violence.

We rebelled against the British for less than what the Palestinians have had to deal with from the Israelis. I'm not saying this to excuse the actions of Hamas, only to explain where they came from.

That should be plain as day, the rest of the indigenous people saw this British program of supplanting them with foreigners in action and lashed out violently towards both the foreigners and the small handful of indigenous people with them. This is pretty accepted history in fact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... , the conspiracies over the Temple Mount take over being only a symptom of greater Muslim fears over British colonial medaling and the supplanting of the Muslim population which very literally came to pass.

Where does Trump blaming Ukraine for the war fit your narrative? Where does Trump inviting Zelenski for an ambush on international television with Vance where they mocked Zelenski for his attire and for being "ungrateful"? Where does cutting off large amounts of aid and forcing Ukraine to buy much of the rest it now fit? How does Trump repeatedly threatening all of our Ukrainian aid fit?

You're giving me a LOT of whataboutisms in regards to other administrations but you don't seem to be able to explain Trump's own actions very well The fact is Trump is the principal actor in Republican's declining approval of our Ukraine aid and that long list above isnt even everything.

Except with the smallest of majorities and an extreme agenda of cutting a LOT of government spending and programs while significantly deepening our debt problems he did get it past and in a fairly reasonable amount of time. I mean, this is how much control Trump has over Republicans, government debt isn't even an issue any more for them.

The two state solution hasn't even been attempted in decades and it's either that or Israel accepting the Palestinians as citizens as keeping millions of people in thrall is a consistent recipe for violence.

We violently revolted against Britain to establish our right of self governance, why should we expect anyone else to do different?

Hey, we agree on something. You're an ideologue.

You're citing fucking an AI chat (that won't even load) as a source!? I have already given you multiple references to Israeli war crimes, not only are they not doing their best to protect human rights but clearly are out to punish all Palestinians for the actions of Hamas.

I'm done with you at this point as if you're repeatedly making claims like the above even after being shown ample contrary data you clearly don't have any interest in any factual information that doesn't fit your narrative of Israel as the perpetual victim.

Men always smoked significantly more than ladies https://www.sciencedirect.com/... , as a straight male you were always working against yourself by smoking. Especially cheap tobacco like in cigarettes.

I likely missed a few good opportunities to get laid when I was in my 20s as while I never smoked by habit I often enjoyed a smoke while I drank at a party or outside a bar. I did enjoy the tobacco and beer combo though so at least I got that.

You idiot conspiracy nuts seize on the smallest most ridiculous things.The Jewish Ukrainian president is a Nazi because one of his security guards was seen wearing Nazi symbols that are not at all well known. Give me a fucking break...

Except I don't remember Trump ever actually getting anything meaningful out of Putin for almost a decade's worth of flattery.

Nice list of meager anti Russian accomplishments Meanwhile Trump has blamed this whole war on Ukraine as if seaking security arrangements after losing Crimea is proper cause for Russia to take their whole country.

We have gotten absolutely nothing from Trump's "special relationship" with Putin aside from failing support for the Ukraine war from Republicans. The Republican party doesn't take a shit anymore without Trump's approval and you can see Republican support for Ukraine decline over time as Trump's influence is felt (initially supporting Ukraine was incredibly popular amongst conservatives, not so much any more). Now we have our president monkeying with aid to them and significant parts of his base cheering him on for it.

Especially when we've had the example of what Israel did with Hezbollah's pagers where they infiltrated their supply network for them for what was a pretty brilliant attack.

If Israel can hide explosives in pagers and get them into their adversaries hands you'd think we'd be able to do the same with "hacked" chips.

I do agree with your assessment of the value of free speech but your "only temporarily" part was a bit amusing considering we've given up free speech rights during war time several times in US history and always gotten them back.

God didn't put shit in the bible, it was entirely written by people.