Re: SOS

On 2025-02-20, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2025-02-20 3:21 p.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-02-20, Bruce <Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:

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The way Trump crawls up Putin's ass is insane. Saying that Zelenski
started the war and that he's a dictator... And the rednecks just nod?
Or don't they know or care because this is about foreign countries and
rednecks don't think further than the next town?

 
Pretty much.  Trump is still butthurt that he got in trouble in
2019 for trying to strong-arm Ukraine.  He's all about revenge.

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WTF is that matter with that man? Yesterday he said that Ukraine started
the war with Russia. I think most of us remember that Russia invaded
Ukraine, not the other way around. They had been building up for it for
a while and saying they were preparing for a military operation. The US
was ready and willing to assist in a proxy war against their common enemy.

 
And, yes.  MAGA wants us to shut the doors and have nothing to do
with the rest of the world.  It wouldn't work in the 18th Century,
and it won't work now.

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It would nice if the US was more consistent in their foreign relations.
They have been interested in Cuba for more than 150 years. They expanded
across to the Pacific and took control of Mexican territory. They had an
isolationist policy for a while but got sucked into WWI and then
weaseled out of the Treaty of Veraille so that saved them going in to
fight Germany in 1939 with their allies before they got roped into that
one. They were quick to drag the UN into Korea.They found a way to get
involved in Vietnam. More recently they gave Iraq tacit approval to
invade Kuwait but then turned around and organized a rescue mission to
chase them back. About a decade later they fabricated a story about WMDs
as an excuse to invade Iraq. Now he wants to pull everything back??? US
foreign policy now seems to depend on the day of the week.

I think Trump wants some sort of empire, to feed his narcissism.
His cult, on the other hand, elected him because they were hoping
for fewer foreign entanglements.

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Cindy Hamilton