Re: mafia shakedown

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025, Blueshirt wrote:

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On Sun, 23 Feb 2025, Blueshirt wrote:

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Now, the way Donald Trump is going about it is a bit heavy
handed... international diplomacy doesn't seems to be his
forte.  He seems to like breaking eggs to make omelettes...
BUT, if the omelette results in a good deal for the USA then
he'll be happy with that as I think he sees running the USA
the same as running a business.

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This also makes him easy to manipulate. Ukraine can say yes to
what ever deal he wants, in return for troops on the ground.
Once they had the chance to build up their own tropps, they
send them home and cancel the deal.

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Agree a deal with Donald Trump and then break it?
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To quote someone famous...
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ALL HELL WOULD BREAK OUT!

Doubt it.

I doubt that Trump would start a war against Ukraine. ;)

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Maybe not a full scale war militarily but if Ukraine reneged on
a 'deal' then most definitely a trade war of some sort, and they

What trade exactly? The US is already threatening to cut off support, and has cut off a lot of things, so there's really not much more to do. So that is why ukraine can do what they want. The sword cuts both ways. ;)

could kiss goodbye to any aid financial or otherwise. Let's see
how good the EU would be at stepping-up to fill the gap then...
so no, I doubt Zelenskyy would want to go down that road.

Aid is already cancelled, and Trump has withdrawn support, so not much more he can do short of invading ukraine, through europe.
So ironically ukraine, due to Trumps actions, have nothing to fear from Trump himself. His shares are no increasing as well in the eyes of europe, since he's now the under dog, and if he can leverage that skillfully enough, there shoould be european troops on the ground within a year or so.