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Absolutely not I have shown proof that your claim was ridiculous! Lol! You don't even know about sample data weighting! if you don't like ipsos, choose your pick All recent polls show a low Trump approval rating https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating#google_vignette

All pollsters do that! It's a standard procedure. It's a ridiculous accusation. Ipsos is one of the world leaders in surveys. If he's an expert, then he's willingly dishonest. If you want to educate yourself, here's a simple explanation. https://survalyzer.com/weighting-survey-data/

I quoted the poll report. I remember that you claimed to be familiar with statistics, so you certainly know about data weighting.

Lame attempt at deflection. Your ignorant claim has been debunked!

B.S. reply from you!

Complete B.S. for the ignorant! The so-called expert is not an expert or is dishonest. He should know that all polsters apply weigh to data in order to correct such issues! Ex about the Ipsos poll The data were weighted to adjust for gender by age, race/ethnicity, education, Census region by metropolitan status, household income, language dominance, 2024 presidential vote choice, and party identification. https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/abc-news-washington-post-ipsos-april-2025

More whining, as usual! "They say Trump only has a 44% approval rating," he said. "Well, that's actually not bad. But when you figure that if it were a legit poll, it would be in the 60s or 70s, is – these people are a bunch of crooked people." https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/nx-s1-5380216/trump-100-days-michigan-rally

As you were adressing the issue of attrition war, I was obviously talking about the recent advances since about one year, not the big territory it conquered at the beginning of the war. It has been very costly in terms of material and human resources, for a rather modest outcome.

Russia may be winning, but only by a small margin. Russia has been throwing all it can in anticipation of "peace" negotiations, for a rather modest outcome, given the price paid. It took nine months to get back the Kursk region, and the progress in Donbass has been quite limited. Moreover, its economic situation is dependent on the price of energy and the anticipated trend is a price decrease.

B.S. denial! The Wikipedia article shows several sources for this information.

As he did about elections, Trump is whining and making up fraud accusations when numbers are not good. Now it's about polls! 🤣 Trump's poll numbers are so abysmal he's crying "fraud" https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-poll-numbers-abysmal-hes-131930785.html Also attached the latest poll numbers https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating

Yet no missiles have been put closer to Russia after Eastern Europe countries joined NATO. They have been left where they were when the Soviet Union collapsed. On top of it, considering the missiles' range, it would make no difference if they were placed in Poland rather than in Ukraine.

You are right that European countries don't have the logistical means to conduct a war without U.S. capabilities, at least on short term. As to the EU, it wouldn't be able to do that in any case, as defense is not a prerogative of the EU. The only thing it can do is support initiatives by member States.

By truncating my post you altered its meaning, which was to reflect on a ridiculous conspiracy theory. The text of my full post was: "The reason you did not get any intelligent reply is likely that this conspiracy theory is irrealistic. Starting with the fact that, as I outlined in my post, European countries were completely unprepared to support Ukraine, as evidenced by the improvisation that characterised their initial response. No strategic stock of weapons, no sufficient weapon production capacity, and no established doctrine on how to support Ukraine. Not to mention the profitable economic ties with Russia. I talk about "European countries", because the EU has no defense prerogative and is not the institution in which military plans were discussed. The relevant institution is NATO. As to the U.S., it had the capacity to support Ukraine, but no clear doctrine about Ukraine, and also improvised. Actually, it was rather focused on Asia rather than Russia, since Obama's tenure. It was the neocons under Bush Jr. who were still focused on Russia."

The reason you did not get any intelligent reply is likely that this conspiracy theory is irrealistic. Starting with the fact that, as I outlined in my post, European countries were completely unprepared to support Ukraine, as evidenced by the improvisation that characterised their initial response. No strategic stock of weapons, no sufficient weapon production capacity, and no established doctrine on how to support Ukraine. Not to mention the profitable economic ties with Russia. I talk about "European countries", because the EU has no defense prerogative and is not the institution in which military plans were discussed. The relevant institution is NATO. As to the U.S., it had the capacity to support Ukraine, but no clear doctrine about Ukraine, and also improvised. Actually, it was rather focused on Asia rather than Russia, since Obama's tenure. It was the neocons under Bush Jr. who were still focused on Russia.

So much mismanagement by Biden! 🙂 Best economic recovery among developped countries with 2 to 3 times higher GDP growth rate than other G7 countries, lower unemployment, higher energy production and exports, and inflation finally controlled after the 2022 surge. Trump inherited a good economy from Biden and is now tanking it! 😆

The NATO threat argument is ridiculous! European NATO countries had been reducing their military budget for decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The EU was concentrating on what it's doing best: peace. The U.S. military presence in Europe also significantly decreased. Missiles and nukes have remained where they were before and have not been moved closer to Russia. There was no threat to Russia!

Good Russian propaganda! 🤣

Putin knows Trump is weak and will do nothing. Z should be careful. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump would start blaming him again

Trump can't stop winning! 🤣

Attested by tweets!

He's so ridiculous.... Not one has been announced yet. When are you going to announce them? I’ve made 200 deals. 😆 You’ve made 200 deals? 100%. 🤣 Can you share with whom? Because the deal is a deal that I choose. View it differently: We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it. (More B.S. follows...) https://time.com/7280114/donald-trump-2025-interview-transcript/

It's under pay wall... I found another one about Mexico. It shows it's peanuts. https://ig.ft.com/china-mexico-tariffs/

Source?

Actually there's already a trade deal with the EU, which eliminates duties on 99% of all tariff lines, https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-country-and-region/countries-and-regions/canada/eu-canada-agreement_en