• P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    Russia is too busy getting their ass handed to them by Ukraine, a country about ten times smaller than they are. They should shut the fuck up on matters of war.

    Or anything, really.

  • Typhoon@lemmy.ca
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    14 hours ago

    Russia wants Europe to get caught up in the Middle East so they won’t be able to support Ukraine. That’s all it is.

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      9 hours ago

      And then after Ukraine… probably Poland. Who knows.

      These guys never stop.

      Some seem to think Israel only wanted Gaza. Russia only wants Ukraine…

      And then they will chill out.

      Nope.

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      12 hours ago

      Apparently, so does tramp…mmm. I guess the only way to get a break with tramp is to…send drones to Iran, like his buddy putain?

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    16 hours ago

    Did I get this right: Country waging war calls a union warmongers for not waging war together with other country waging war?

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      11 hours ago

      My kids and their friends were so disapointed after reading the news for a week, then going to parliament as a a school trip to learn how the system works.

      They were really disapointed in the lack of slamming. They thought it would be more like pro wrestling.

  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    accused European leaders of being “anti-Trump”

    As they - and anyone else with a brain and/or conscience- should be by this point, if not way earlier.

    I sincerely hope at least one EU leader responds with something like “Why, yes, we are. Thank you for noticing.”

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    16 hours ago

    “The masks are off,” Dmitriev wrote. “U.K. and EU warmongers are showing how deeply anti-Trump they really are. They tried to hide it for a long time, but now everyone can see it.”

    State-level trolling.

    At the same time, Dmitriev’s comments were widely seen as effectively encouraging additional countries to join military action against Tehran — one of Moscow’s key strategic partners.

    Except it may not be contradictory in terms of goals. Russia does not want the EU to be a US vassal. Not for altruistic reasons but because it’ll be easier to restore trade with an unaligned EU. At the same time Russia might (perhaps correctly) consider that NATO cannot reopen the strait given how trivial and cheap it is for Iran to keep it closed. The longer the war lasts, the longer the strait stays closed, the more everyone needs Russian fossil fuels. And at the same time any naval assets that enter the strait are likely going down, which would diminish the naval capabilities of these actors as well as their military power projection.

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      > “The masks are off,” Dmitriev wrote. “U.K. and EU warmongers are showing how deeply anti-Trump they really are. They tried to hide it for a long time, but now everyone can see it.”

      So…what are they really saying here? This war is about being loyal to Trump? That other countries are either for this war or against Trump? Are they speaking to Trump when they say this, so he frames it this way? Since when do leaders from other countries need to show deference to Trump? Since when is he leader of Earth that requires compliance?

      • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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        15 hours ago

        Probably trying to drive a wedge between Trump amd the EU, wormtongue-style, in the hopes of having Trump lift more sanctions or punishing Ukraine through some other means in retaliation.