🇺🇸💩 Trump is Putin, and we’re all fucking cowards 😡
Jon Shelton with AP, AFP, Reuters: Trump says Ukraine should elect a new president:
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president, suggesting that current Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has not done enough to end Ukraine’s war with Russia.
Speaking at the White House, Trump said, “I suggest they get a new leader who can make a [peace] deal,” adding that “for some reason [Zelenskyy] never does.”
Trump claimed Zelenskyy has “lost 30% of your country and you’ve had over a million people go between the two of them, over 2 million people killed. That’s a war that should have never started. And I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president.”
Independent estimates put the percentage of Ukrainian territory under Russian control at 20%, with British defense officials recently stating that about half a million Russian soldiers had been killed in the war and that there were no reliable recent estimates about how many Ukrainians had died.
In his remarks, the US president also warned Kyiv against targeting Russian oil refineries.
Trump said he had told Zelenskyy to “do what you want” against Russia but “don’t hit refineries.”
“He better damn well stop,” Trump added.
Video: “Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop. I think it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president.”
Here’s a translation of an opinion on Facebook:
Pub philosophy, but would it really be so crazy for the EU to break away from the US?
At this point, I don’t see American troops as protecting us from the Russians, but rather as a potential occupying force that could, if it came to it, impose the will of the Emperor in Washington. They could topple governments, force us to sign contracts and set up SovRom-style joint ventures with the US, and so on. The US has toppled governments in Latin America without even having troops stationed in those countries, but it has troops in our countries!
What’s more, EVEN THOUGH we don’t have the balls and are still importing Russian gas instead of having stopped doing so ABRUPTLY, THE DAY AFTER THE INVASION BEGAN, we could stop grovelling before America and threaten it with huge tariffs ourselves, or even STOP TRADING WITH THE US.
The interdependence of national economies in this globalized economy is an enormous vulnerability, and autarky would have been a matter of national security. No, it wasn’t invented by Ceaușescu or the Kim family; it was the norm in Europe for centuries, when countries at war could survive without most imports. Now, unfortunately, good grief, the German car industry will die if it can’t export to the US (it’s dying anyway); producers of cognac, champagne, Parmigiano Reggiano and other things that seem to have been invented for Americans will die; and we’ll all die without Microsoft and Oracle licenses, without American search engines, without American AI, without the crap that a continent in accelerated decline doesn’t produce.
But we could wage economic war against the US, assuming we could actually expel American troops without them overthrowing our governments. Twice in history, the US saved Europe from being destroyed by Germany. Now I’m afraid we have to save ourselves from destruction by the Russia–US tandem!
In the event of a mutual embargo, we could introduce legislation allowing governments and intelligence services to use hackers to keep major software running without having to buy licenses. We could “get hold of” security patches and host them on European servers. At the eleventh hour, we could finally realize that our power structures are more heavily infiltrated by Americans than by Russians.
None of this will happen, though. History will record that European civilization disappeared, in part because corrupt politicians and greedy CEOs submitted to the Great Firefly in Washington. For our endless folly lies in the fact that we have always sought a master; we have always crawled on all fours. And we Romanians, even more so, have always had masters: in Istanbul, in Moscow, in Washington.