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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Do this enough times and eventually no one will want to do business with the US or it's government.

Who the hell wants to do anything with a leadership that constantly flip flops on everything they say, never means a thing and constantly lies?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Other than the UK and Israel.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests."

This is not new. Even England had a shakedown before WW2 support.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those interests have historically been very stable over time so it was easy to tell if you were going to be a friend or foe. But they suddenly changed with the current administration and we have no idea what they are anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

we have no idea what they are anymore.

There's no knowing for certain, but "Trump's ego" and "Vladimir Putin" make for relatively good educated guesses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That's the thing. There's a long line of hands taking turns in stroking his ego. Which one was last to do it? How long before the next one and who is it going to be? We don't know any of that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Do this enough times and eventually no one will want to do business with the US or it's government

Literally the goal

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Does he wake up every morning and do a d20 roll on what his opinion is going to be that day?

Seriously though, I guess he REALLY wants his name on the peace deal, whatever the cost, so he can go on to demand a Nobel Peace Prize. I expect him to get real pissy if he doesn't get one, whining about how Obama got one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

His blood-sugar level apparently has an effect.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

No, he does whatever the last person who praised him tells him to do. I remember this from last time, he's really that easily manipulated.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

This geriatric asshole is a one trick pony. Slap on tariff, remove the next day. Suspend aid, release the next day. I hope my country completely ditches the US and makes some new friends so we can all just ignore this asshat and get on with our lives.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

i guess Mohammed bin Salman called a stockholders meeting

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Yeah, we’re a really reliable source these days

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I were Zelinsky, I wouldn't trust that "intelligence"!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

i'd like to think enough anti-putin republicans were ready to turn on krasnov that he flip-flopped.. but ya, this is the more likely scenario: the pentagon is gonna feed some bad intel, and a lot of ukrainians are gonna get killed as a result.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 week ago (3 children)

For now. The US is proving to be unreliable on the international stage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i’ll keep apologizing for our buffoonery. But don’t write us all off. We will find a way to fix this. Inevitably. Just takes time in democracies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Ha, that is if you get to keep yours. It's not looking good.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The democracy you speak of is degrading right before our eyes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just like how every democracy has gone through troubling times. You can’t give up hope. It will stand this.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Trump and Musk are mentally unstable, thats a fact... So...

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (2 children)

On the domestic stage as well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Can confirm, am American. Whole sectors of our economy depend on grants/government spending and they're very uncertain about their futures

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure the turkeys are still backstage “warming up”.