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#72I wish the EU was more ... united.
Most of the nations were woefully slow to act with Ukraine (hey let's send some token helmets). They've got a totalitarian regime invading democracies in their back yard but don't seem all that united about it ....
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#73Has there ever been a meeting that went this bad in front of journalists?
Nope, this is the first such "blow up" where folks at the white house berated a guest they invited there.
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#75quite an impactful and unusual event -- this post should _not_ be flagged
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#76It 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.
I think they did, but they didn’t expect Zelensky to punch back. He’s more of a fighter than either of them will ever be. Trump is the classic bully where all you need to do is push back. Then he folds.
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#77> In a fireworks-filled public confrontation unlike any seen between an American president and foreign leader in modern times, Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance castigated Mr. Zelensky for not being grateful enough for U.S. support in its war with Russia and sought to strong-arm him into making a peace deal on whatever terms the Americans dictate. Jebus, how do you screw up a photo op? Buch of children in the US executive bran…
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#78Can we take the opportunity to discuss why Trump's administration is so desperately going after rare earth minerals? Greenland, Canada, Ukraine...
Is it only about chips and AI for economic reasons or is there more involved like, an army of robots or something to control everything?
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#79Ukraine is in a bind, and the US has the power to do whatever it wants. But boy, will the nations of the world remember this -- how quickly the US can turn from ally to bully. A really bad day for US foreign policy. The EU is going to be thinking long and hard about the future of NATO now.
> But boy, will the nations of the world remember this -- how quickly the US can turn from ally to bully.
Nothing new, smart people knew that for a long, looong time. May I remind you it took Pearl Harbor to get the US into WW2.
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#80Realtalk: Would you entrust the nuclear arsenal to someone who honestly thinks "asylum seekers" came from an insane asylum?
https://thespectator.com/topic/spectator-interview-president...