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Putin is playing with trump, but trump is too dumb to know it!

Steady on CallumWK, because you are dealing with typical MAGA/trumpie cult members and as Trump has already said, "he likes the poorly educated" so it stands to reason that you are also dealing with folk of that ilk. You are wasting your time trying to educate them for two reasons, first because they are "not the sharpest knives in the drawer" and second because they worship the orange buffoon and all he says, even though he's dumb. There, fixed it for you.

“The big debate now is whether this is a tactical move to reshape our foreign policy or a revolution?” said R. Nicholas Burns, the US ambassador to China under President Joe Biden and to Nato under President George W. Bush. “I’ve come to think it’s a revolution,” he said. “When you are voting with North Korea and Iran against Nato allies, when you are failing to stand up to Russian aggression, when you are threatening to take the territory of your allies, something has fundamentally changed. There is a breaking of the trust with allies we may never be able to repair.”

All agreed, signed and sealed by trump and co.........I can explain it for you but I can't understand it for you. Try a little harder dude.

Nauseus posted: "Only Dems seem to feel the need to resort to so-called fact-checkers, who are generally as wrong as them." So there you have it!!

I don't know, but either way, what she does or doesn't say certainly hits the nail on the head, so I will choose to believe it as everything "she said" has turned out to be true. The guy is as dumb as a bag of rocks, but will still appeal to some people who like liars, cheats, scammers, grifters and felons, not to mention someone who is incapable of running a successful business!

Ah, so I see...........when it suits the MAGA/trumpies, Fact Checkers can be relied upon, yet when it doesn't suit because they are disparaging of trump and co-, they are not to be believed. Who'd have thunk it!!

I sincerely hope that's sarcasm on your part, because we all know what happened after that and we all know that America's word cannot be trusted esp when Vlad is pulling the strings..

Just goes to show that the old saying "Mum knows best" is totally correct in this case................

Sad man, so very sad.

Whatever......the word of the US means nothing and trump and co are SOBs for abandoning Ukraine in their time of need. That the US did not live up to their promise to protect Ukraine back then was bad enough, but they have a chance now to stand up to Putin, but the orange dough boy is not strong enough, nor are his weak acolytes. JFK stood up to Russia and they backed down.......trump has not the spine to do so. In January 1994, the U.S., Russia and Ukraine issued an historic Trilateral Statement that promised security assurances to Ukraine once the START I Treaty entered into force and Ukraine became a non-nuclear weapons state and a party to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.

Too much time on the golf courses and not enough studying economics and common sense!!

I have posted it before so here it is again........what value is the word of the US??

Is this the same Marco Rubio who promised the US would protect Ukraine if they gave up their nuclear weapons?? Two-faced SOB and that goes for his orange leader as well and neither of them can be trusted, so why should this deal be any different without some guarantees in place.

And demand for US made orange makeup has also slumped!!

The signs are not good............... For two years, US stocks went virtually straight up. In a matter of weeks, that’s been turned upside down, and as the equities selloff intensifies Wall Street is wondering where it stops. The tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 Index plunged 3% on Monday, now on pace for its worst quarter since 2022. The S&P 500 Index sank 2%, teetering closer to a correction after tumbling roughly 8% since its February 19 peak. The index is on track to close below its 200-day moving average for the first time since November 2023, snapping a streak of 336 sessions above its long-term support line. Tesla shares plunged more than 15% on Monday (Tuesday NZT), hitting their lowest point since before Election Day as investors registered the impact of falling sales and increasing protests over the high-profile political role that Elon Musk, the company’s CEO, has taken on. In afternoon trading, the electric-car maker’s shares were down more than 15% for the day, and more than 50% from a mid-December peak. The day’s loss far outstripped the 2.5% drop in the S&P 500. The mask is coming off...

On that subject I thought Timothee's rendition of the songs was better than the originals!! Also I thought that Monica Barbero who played Joan Baez was excellent and she also sang JB's songs.

And dangerous when you look at this..........very popular with Putin!!! Trump naïve or plain stupid? In the fiery spat between Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, it was a sentence that went largely unnoticed, but said quite a lot about the closeness the US leader thinks he has with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. “Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me,” Trump said on February 28 in the unprecedented and very public Oval Office clash. “He went through a phony witch hunt,” Trump added, referring to an investigation during his first term into whether his 2016 election campaign colluded with Moscow. Even though that allegation was repeatedly denied by the Kremlin, the Republican President seems now to be saying the incident forged a sense of solidarity between the leaders.

I finally got round to watching, "A Complete Unknown" and thought it was very good and Timothee Chalamet was really great in it and he sang the songs in the movie, as did the woman playing Joan Baez. I was never really into any of Bob Dylan's songs, although it was my era, however listening to the songs from this movie has given me a real appreciation of him, his songs and the messages he was trying to put across – – although I will add that according to the movie he seems to be a bit of an r/sole!!!

Just to add................. The deep state conspiracy theory in the United States is an American political conspiracy theory that posits the existence of the deep state, a clandestine network of members of the federal government (especially within the FBI and CIA). The theory argues that there exist networks of collaborators within the leadership of the high-level financial and industrial entities, which exercise power alongside or within the elected United States government. Political commentator and former presidential adviser David Gergen said that the term had been appropriated by Steve Bannon, Breitbart News, and other supporters of the Trump administration in order to delegitimize the critics of the Trump presidency. Stephen Walt, professor of international relations at Harvard University, argued that there is no deep state and that "to the extent that there is a bipartisan foreign-policy elite, it is hiding in plain sight"