• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Vance called on Russia to “wake up and accept reality” – a reality in which they are suffering heavy losses and “don’t have a lot to show for it”.

    Okay, so now Russia “doesn’t have the cards”, right?

    Quote: “We remain committed to peace, but it takes two to tango. And unfortunately, what we’ve seen over the last couple of weeks is that the Russians have refused to sit down with any bilateral meetings with the Ukrainians. They’ve refused to sit down with any trilateral meetings where the president or some other member of the [US] administration could sit down with the Russians and the Ukrainians.”

    What did he expect? Vance didn’t even say “thank you”. /s

    The White House is being run by spoiled brats.

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      Bro it’s like sooooooo unfair that you don’t want to just chill, man

      Mans is severely out of his league, all surprised that geopolitics isn’t like his high school

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    And they treated Ukraine like a piece of shit. Sorry you guys have to deal with the worst of humanity right now from both sides.

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    It seems the power has been shifting over the past couple of weeks. I hate to promote hope here, but it seems like something is terminally wrong with trump, and those jockeying for position aren’t bound by so much kompromat and are aware backing Putin isn’t a winning strategy.

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      We are basing this on what taco said with absolutely zero action. After 10 years we should know better that what trump said should be issued and we should judge him by his actions.

      As for the 2nd part. JV Dunce is a puppet of Thiel and Musk, who are pro Russia and China, so I wouldn’t expect much change there.

      It is noticeable though that in last few weeks this admin accelerated authoritarian push. So perhaps they do want to push all unpopular things right now before switch.

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        IDK. Hegseth summoning of the military officers still strikes me as weird.

        If Trump bites it, Vance becomes President, but Hegseth stays the Secretary of Defense (I will not call it war, just to piss them off). So there’s no internal power struggle.

        But Vance has no military knowledge, and would unlikely be able to have any useful things to order. Since Hegseth does, and he’s quite brain damaged, I wonder if this was some sort of “y’all, orders are going to be coming from me as if they were ordered by the prezzy himself.”

        So I think it’s just all a distraction from the fact that the regime only has a concept of an idea of a plan.

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        I’m not basing this on trump, but on Vance’s latest assertions. I actually think Trump has become largely irrelevant (except for his bloviations to the press) – he’s not even aware of what he’s signing, which is clear and on camera.

        I’m paying more attention now to what Vance and the other henchmen say.
        You’re right, it’s mostly Musk and Theil, but that’s more a business relationship than a dom-sub thing.

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    I mean, why would anyone want to be involved with Trump,Vance, or their administration? I mean, for fucks sake, the couch stains between Vance and Trump alone are enough of a reason to say no… And that’s not even getting into how much young blood and underage girls you’ll need to supply them with so they can maintain their corporeal form