I am sincerely curious what Andreesen and Horowitz believe at the moment.
$$$ probably...
Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
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#622US policy is now one of forcing the world into a zero sum game and it is a shame because the world isn't zero sum. This means the world will loose the gains from friendship and cooperation that increase the overall outcome for everyone. It is like living in a city where crime is expected so everyone puts up iron bars on their windows and the parks are all locked-down nightmares. When there is trust and cooperation yo…
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#623If European leaders don't watch this and realise they need to take control of their own destiny they're idiots. Several European leaders visited this week bending the knee to try and stave off tariffs. Time to stand up, realise the US is no longer a reliable ally, and start building (on all fronts - military, manufacturing, tech, etc). Given the American people voted for this guy twice - the second time in spite of J…
It's not a matter of taking control. For many reasons, starting from ww2 and later the U.s. summarized the west population common values and ethics, in a very simple and sharable way. In Europe this is not possible because there is too much cultural distance between the countries, but we are all equidistant from the U.s. That's why we are all NATO allies and why fundamentally for the u.s. eveything is possible. It's something that we all agree upon because otherwise we would be arguing with each other.
Re: Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
#624If European leaders don't watch this and realise they need to take control of their own destiny they're idiots. Several European leaders visited this week bending the knee to try and stave off tariffs. Time to stand up, realise the US is no longer a reliable ally, and start building (on all fronts - military, manufacturing, tech, etc). Given the American people voted for this guy twice - the second time in spite of J…
You must have missed the visit from the French president. Macron whooped Trump harder than Stormy. That's probably why his fragile little ego needed someone to tell at.
Re: Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
#625If European leaders don't watch this and realise they need to take control of their own destiny they're idiots. Several European leaders visited this week bending the knee to try and stave off tariffs. Time to stand up, realise the US is no longer a reliable ally, and start building (on all fronts - military, manufacturing, tech, etc). Given the American people voted for this guy twice - the second time in spite of J…
European Democracies need to start their own Alliance.
Re: Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
#626De Gaulle said that in the matter country's foreign policy, there is no friend or even allies but only common goals.
Pushing back on Putin has never been one of trump goal, he'd rather have the entire Europe Russian than having to deal with that.
Instead he is much more focused on fighting China, which is fair.
However, Russia has been a long time China allies. They have mutual border, mutual goals (the first one being to end American domination on the world).
Wouldn't helping Putin, by making Ukraine armless and easy target, be then also helping china indirectly ?
I don't see how, all things considered, it even helps push trump agenda on fighting china.
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#627Russia probably has strong kompromats on Trump and his administration. Can't explain it any other way. Why otherwise they would go out of the way to make idiots of themselves in public in front of the whole world? I know Trump has not been an example of tact but this is something else.
It's hard to imagine anything he's done in private with the KGB cameras rolling being worse than the mountain of stuff that's already publicly known, or that he has openly done in public.
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#628> It sounds like we’re attaching a few conditions in hopes to end the killing
You really believe that the current administration is acting out of “hopes to end the killing”?
What do you think Greenland is about? About spreading christianity?
The current administration is failing and the top % is profiting off it; eating itself up. It’s a pattern that’s well known.
Internationally, the US is rapidly losing allies all across the board. And internally, facing its facing increasingly extreme inequality in terms of wealth distribution.
The current administration doesn’t even have interesting cards that it can play.
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#629It 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.
They 100% set him up. A new block in the wall of proving that Trump is a Russian asset or dupe. I don't see how any other conclusion can be drawn by anyone paying attention. He consistently kisses up to Putin with little love messages via Fox news and other outlets, while doing his best to alienate the rest of the world. It would be different if he just washed his hands of the whole situation, however he always looks up to Putin and refuses to call him a dictator, I reckon because he was told that he would regret it if he ever did from his Russian contacts.
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#630I read on a pro-russian site that if there is a strategy behind it, it might be to break Russia out of the China/BRICS alliance and use them as an ally against the "real" enemy, which would be China. It would make some kind of sense and match the rhetoric of a lot of republicans - but on the other hand, it also sounds awfully risky especially if the plan is more or less known to anyone?
Just this week trump said he will not defend Taiwan from china.