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You must do a lot of yoga to streeeeeeetch like that.

Well, you have to decide which Zelensky is. According to Mama Beeb, he is still willing to sign the mining deal with the US. I have a feeling that some of Zelensky's more clever advisors got in his ear during the trans-Atlantic flight and basically told him that he screwed the pooch. Meeting Starmer was lovely, but our Piers only promised him 1% of the aid that the US could give.

Figured this would come up. Not if you are begging for money and the survival of your country. There is a not very storied history of political leaders playing dress-up as if they were in the military. It tends not to coincide with democracy or freedom.

Nice masturbatory fantasy. More likely would be Marine veteran JD Vance choking out little Vloddy, whose total military experience seems to be a bizarre form of cosplay.

In spite of his constant efforts to appear as revolutionary-chic in his fatigues, the man actually can dress when he wants to. As a former performer, he understands the optics of dress. So his choice of attire to meet a man he is begging money from was...curious, to say the least. But I guess to Zelensky, meeting Klaus Schwab was more important than meeting President Trump.

Small fly in your ointment is that, according to the BBC, Zelenski is now suddenly prepared to SIGN the mineral deal with the US. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn5220x56pqt

Quick question- in multi-party countries, is it common for the party with the most votes/seats (but not an outright majority) to be denied the first chance to form a government? I haven't heard of it happening before, but I may be wrong. Seems to me that bureaucratic Euro-lefties are afraid of their own people. I checked about the FPO in Austria, but couldn'T find anything terribly radical or dangerous in their policies. Just standard right of centre populism.

I think the attention deficit may be yours. Vance and Rubio have been sitting in on all recent meetings with world leaders, especially the ones in the Oval Office in front of the fireplace. This setting is supposed to be just for public relations, at the conclusion of behind closed doors negotiating. Vance is a graduate of Yale Law School etc. Trump has run a multi billion dollar global corporation for decades. And your, as well as others, have the temerity to question their intelligence? It is to laugh. Zelensky screwed the pooch by attempting to renegotiate in public. And was rightfully slapped down. He can get away with that with the syncophants in Europe, but not in Washington. Now he has talked himself into a corner. The Euros talk a tough game but have nothing to back it up with. As Scott Jennings put it so well on CNN; "All he had to do was walk in and say, thank you. I'm really grateful to be here. We want to be partners with the United States. We're grateful for your leadership. Where's the papers and what are we having for lunch? That's all he had to do."

Just saw the footage of the meeting in the Oval Office. My God, Zelensky is an utter, arrogant fool. You do NOT go into another country and disrespect their leader like that. Trying to argue in front of the media is a great way to make your country cease to be. Not to mention always showing up in a t-shirt like he is some kind of warrior who is just "too busy" to dress appropriately. You are meeting the President of the United States, and begging for his help. Show a little class. I guess he is used to being feted and celebrated by the squishy pols who inhabit Europe. But when he visits America's House, he needs to step small.

It is classic leftist thinking. That they 'own' certain minority groups and their political support. And when they lose that support, they have to justify it somehow. Because there is no way whatsoever that non-white people could POSSIBLY be conservative or pro-Trump, unless they are brainwashed or stupid. So they need the helpful guidance of white lefties to get them back on the plantation.

That's interesting. Because up to 15 minutes ago, Musk was hailed as a visionary and a genius whose EVs would change the world, one of the greatest minds of our time. Then, when he began to support Trump, he suddenly became either a racist idiot, or an evil puppetmaster. And now the bright lights on the far left are vandalizing the property of people who have ALREADY bought Tesla cars. Classic emotional tantrums that have zero meaning and do nothing to influence Musk himself.

Biden had a plan? First time ever. Not sure about it though. Use Ukranian blood to gum up the wheels of the Russian military.... Seems rather callous, even for a Democrat.

Good, because it wasn't. Big scale budget items like defense spending are projected forward. So the defense budget this year was projected from 2-3 years ago. Starmer is doing the same now, projecting forward, not for this year. You can see the precipitous decline in military spending when Obama was President, but a reversal when Trump took office.

Yes, but from 2012-16 it was flat, even lower. As it went much lower from 2008-2012. And who was President in those years.... Then in 2017 it started to creep back up...

Really? Who was President from 2017-2020 then? The budget for 2020 was settled in 2019, when Trump was President. The 2021 budget was decided in 2020, when Trump was President. So we could see this as The Trump Effect 1.0 then.

Exactly. Also, if their programmes are so vital, surely it would be easy to raise funds from the public through charitable donations rather than relying on the government... Amazing to see "The Trump Effect" working even on a squish like Starmer. The dread prospect of not relying on Uncle Sugar to keep him safe has motivated him nicely.

Love how the Hamas "fighters" hide amongst children, and keep their faces covered. Truly evil. One hopes that Netanyahu can keep it together until the rest of the hostages are freed, and then turns Gaza into a parking lot. Besides, what kind of twisted monster keeps the bodies of their victims as hostages?

You ARE joking, I presume. Polievre was born to a teenage mother, and adopted by a family of two teachers. Grew up in a very modest household. Now compare that to Silver Spoon Trudeau...

Pretty sure he will win the nomination. Freeland is annoying and has that "I'm so smart I will talk to you like you are a kindergarden student" voice. I dislike Carney's policys intensely, but he is undeniably clever. I wonder how he will fare in politics and debates with actual opposition. PP was caught flat-footed by Trudeau's resignation and has been scrambling to retool his political campaign. But he still has the juice to win, thankfully. God help the country if Carney is elected, though

Nah, we have enough woke-scolds already in network news here. Especially bitchy francophone women.

On behalf of the nation of Canada, I apologize for foisting Lyse Doucet on the British public.

And individually, you are absolutely correct. Yet you avoided my point that, on a societal level, that is not true. "Some radicals" did not expel the Jews from every country in North Africa and the Middle East.

Peaceful people? Hmmm. You may want to look at the Arab League, and see what happened to religious minorities in those countries.

Sad, but how is this relevant to the topic? Lots of gay folks getting their Teslas tagged?

Very true. And sadly he will probably walk away with a chunk of Ukraine and guarantees that Ukraine won't join NATO. But however unpalatable that outcome is, the alternative is worse. If you want to actually try and expel Russia from all of Ukraine, then you need to involve NATO ground and air forces. Which means WW3. How many thousands of British and American and Polish and German lives are you willling to throw onto the fire?