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Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

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Re: Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

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Well, here come the downvotes, but for anybody who thinks that it is completely believable that Trump is a Russian stooge or is “on Russias side” let me offer this up: - We want peace. Full stop. No more dead men, women, and children. THAT IS THE GOAL. CONTEXT: - Trump armed Ukraine to the teeth in first term, providing lethal aid which previous presidents did not do. He wanted to deter Putin while not also escalatin…

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Re: Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

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Don't forget that Ukraine has a pretty good donation website setup if that happens to be a cause you are willing and have the financial resources to give to.

Do you not know how many of your tax dollars were already given to Ukraine?

Re: Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

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I would like to know what the alternatives are. None that I can think of are palatable: 1. Support Ukraine enough so that Russia doesn't take too much more territory, but not enough for Russia to feel threatened and escalate the war. This was the Biden plan and it sounds like what Europe wants. I just don't see how this ends the war. Is this just buying time for someone to depose Putin? 2. Support Ukraine enough so i…

I’m struggling to see how option 1 is somehow worse than option 4…

Re: Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

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It was as if they invited him to the Whitehouse to set him up for a lecture and scolding. They had no intention of anything other than humiliating him in front of the world. It's shameful what our administration has done.

> It's shameful what our administration has done.

The shameful part was ten years ago.

Re: Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

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Dear Americans, please do something. Protest, write letters to congressmen etc. We Germans went through all of this 90 years ago..

People complained that the Russians didn't protest more at the beginning of the war, and here you have the Americans, who won't be sent to Siberia or thrown out of a window, doing nothing.
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