Lol! Ok. Would you buy something you don’t even need, from a supplier that is going to change the price on you every other day, just to try and fuck you over?
Nothing you said, makes up for the fact that Trump is an unreliable trade partner. In fact, all of the factors you mentioned make for very good reasons to find other supply connections. If those things are that important, then dealing with Trump is the stupidest way to try and guarantee steady business.
These countries need to walk away from the table until someone stable can take over negotiations. Why would anyone sign a trade deal with someone, knowing they are never going to honor the conditions they just agreed to? By next week, Trump will have completely forgotten that he signed anything…so why bother?
Anyone who still thinks Trump will respect any current US alliances, needs to think again.
First link - about detention for protesting. Thanks for proving my point about people in Russia having more freedoms and at least some chance to protest. In Ukraine you would not even think about, as you would be kidnapped and sent to the meatgrinder immediately.
So…you didn’t actually read the article then? Because it goes into quite a bit of detail about how protestors are being jailed and the media is being censored. Which is the exact opposite of what you are claiming.
Second link also further proves my point - “conscripts cannot legally be deployed to participate in military operations in Ukraine”, so in other words you are not sent to die in the meatgrinder. The following example of conscripts actually getting into war is about Ukraine invading (!!) Kursk oblast, where they murdered soldiers and civilians. The stories about the actual kidnappings are just that - stories. Perhaps if you look really hard you would be able to find 1 or 2 videos of that happening in Russia, where individual officers overstep their authority, in Ukraine its systematic, and well the only way to keep the war going.
Again…you didn’t actually read the whole article, did you? That one detail you quoted, is being circumvented by several new changes to the law, and in many cases is simply ignored by commanding officers in the field. All that is in the article. Along with the fact that those who resist the draft or try to avoid conscription are often beaten, tasered and forced to join anyway, or they are sent to prison for as much as two years…and then they are sent to war after that.
Your arguments are so transparently disingenuous that there is really no point in providing you with any further information. You are obviously just going to ignore it.
You mean, something like this? Or maybe this?
If you want to complain about how one side is doing something bad…it helps if the side you’re defending isn’t also doing the same thing. And for the record, sarcasm is really only effective if the point you’re trying to make, is valid. Bullshitting your way through an argument, is just intellectually dishonest.
Russia also drafts civilians. Hundreds of thousands of them, so far. So, what you are saying, is pure bullshit. Russia doesn’t give a fuck how many civilians die for Putin’s war.
If they did care, it would be the easiest thing in the world to solve. Just withdraw their troops and go home. Everyone lives. The ongoing death toll has always been up to them. They chose this.
That’s already after the initial crime has been committed…and is a direct result of it.
It also intentionally mischaracterized what that article is talking about. Russia isn’t “liberating” the people in those regions. They are stealing that land, and calling it “liberation”.
No one was preventing anyone from leaving the country…they just don’t get to take the land with them. That’s not how it works. The word for that is “stealing”.
“Liberated”? Hilarious. That’s like saying I “liberated” your wallet, when I took it from your pocket.
Just wait until Putin nominates him for a Novel Peace Prize. They’ll be besties again, just like that.
“Master Negotiator” right there, folks! Gaze upon the Art of the Deal, and weep tears of inadequacy.
The tobacco lobby says boosting taxes on its products will just encourage black market sales and cut national revenue – undermining any attempt to funnel revenue into the bloc’s next long-term budget.
So…they’re straight up admitting that they’re just going to start selling their product under the table, if this passes?
Depends on how much bribery and extortion Trump is willing to use, in order to change their minds. One way or the other though, the US is on its way towards losing all positive influence in these countries.
I don’t think he knows what the word “peace” means.
Burn it all to the ground, kids.
It really seems like he doesn’t understand what a “defense alliance” is meant to accomplish.
Exactly. Just like they promised ten years ago, and then never delivered. Now we’re moving in the opposite direction.
Fuck the Liberals. We gave them a win, and the first thing they do is fuck us over. Again.
Who is still lending Russia money?
All while deporting as many farm workers as they can get their hands on. The US is headed for a self-inflicted famine.