Zelensky Speaks in PA
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Israel receives a shit ton of money in military aid from the US, and nobody on the right ever complains when Bibi insults the Democrats, because as we know they're all antisemites.
I was only joking
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What if this was the Chinese leader, being flown in on the American dollar to speak on possible tariffs?
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Israel receives a shit ton of money in military aid from the US, and nobody on the right ever complains when Bibi insults the Democrats, because as we know they're all antisemites.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
Israel receives a shit ton of money in military aid from the US, and nobody on the right ever complains when Bibi insults the Democrats, because as we know they're all antisemites.
Dems are anti-semites, and Republicans are Russian operatives. Facts.
It's difficult to leave the house without being surrounded by anti-semites and Russian operatives. That's why I don't leave the house.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
Israel receives a shit ton of money in military aid from the US, and nobody on the right ever complains when Bibi insults the Democrats, because as we know they're all antisemites.
Dems are anti-semites, and Republicans are Russian operatives. Facts.
It's difficult to leave the house without being surrounded by anti-semites and Russian operatives. That's why I don't leave the house.
@Horace said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
Israel receives a shit ton of money in military aid from the US, and nobody on the right ever complains when Bibi insults the Democrats, because as we know they're all antisemites.
Dems are anti-semites, and Republicans are Russian operatives. Facts.
It's difficult to leave the house without being surrounded by anti-semites and Russian operatives. That's why I don't leave the house.
What do you do if you're an antisemitic Russian operative?
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@Horace said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
Israel receives a shit ton of money in military aid from the US, and nobody on the right ever complains when Bibi insults the Democrats, because as we know they're all antisemites.
Dems are anti-semites, and Republicans are Russian operatives. Facts.
It's difficult to leave the house without being surrounded by anti-semites and Russian operatives. That's why I don't leave the house.
What do you do if you're an antisemitic Russian operative?
@Doctor-Phibes said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
@Horace said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
Israel receives a shit ton of money in military aid from the US, and nobody on the right ever complains when Bibi insults the Democrats, because as we know they're all antisemites.
Dems are anti-semites, and Republicans are Russian operatives. Facts.
It's difficult to leave the house without being surrounded by anti-semites and Russian operatives. That's why I don't leave the house.
What do you do if you're an antisemitic Russian operative?
You never show your face on the internet, that's for sure. Nobody will like you.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
@Horace said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
Israel receives a shit ton of money in military aid from the US, and nobody on the right ever complains when Bibi insults the Democrats, because as we know they're all antisemites.
Dems are anti-semites, and Republicans are Russian operatives. Facts.
It's difficult to leave the house without being surrounded by anti-semites and Russian operatives. That's why I don't leave the house.
What do you do if you're an antisemitic Russian operative?
You never show your face on the internet, that's for sure. Nobody will like you.
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@George-K said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
Foreign leader expresses a preference for one candidate on US soil having just traveled at taxpayer expense for photo-op.
Is this a problem?
Eh, why is this a problem? Isn't that pretty normal?
If Trump were president and a foreign leader would express a preference for Trump in the next election while on a US trip - would that be a problem? I don't think so either.
@Klaus said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
Eh, why is this a problem? Isn't that pretty normal?
Let's put it differently.
Vlad Putin makes a stop in the United States. He visits an arms factory, where he praises Trump, saying that Biden is to unstable and senile. He thinks Harris will follow Biden's policies.
And the US Air Force flies him from Washington to Pennsylvania.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Klaus said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
Eh, why is this a problem? Isn't that pretty normal?
Let's put it differently.
Vlad Putin makes a stop in the United States. He visits an arms factory, where he praises Trump, saying that Biden is to unstable and senile. He thinks Harris will follow Biden's policies.
And the US Air Force flies him from Washington to Pennsylvania.
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@Mik said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
is Pierre fighting for his country's very existence?
Not his country’s very interests but certainly his very own political interest.
Actually I would have a problem if any serving Canadian PM was being flown around any foreign country on anything other than his designated CAF aircraft.
In any event the question is moot.
Zelensky represents 38 million disenfranchised stakeholders in the upcoming US election. I too would be concerned if the victor of the next election would have no qualms appeasing the Kremlin in undermining my country’s sovereignty and right to exist as an independent nation state.
Contrary to what some people think Ukraine is not Kurdistan; an ethnic entity that merely exists as an aspiration that can be bartered and sold as a chattel of back room diplomacy.
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The U.S. is shouldering a ton of cost for Ukraine - this is a tired point, but isn't depleting Russia's military power cost effective for the U.S. in the long term? The two biggest potential adversaries we have are China and Russia. Don't our military expenditures go up if Russia wins?
Maybe there's an argument to be made about the unpredictability of a cornered adversary.
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The U.S. is shouldering a ton of cost for Ukraine - this is a tired point, but isn't depleting Russia's military power cost effective for the U.S. in the long term? The two biggest potential adversaries we have are China and Russia. Don't our military expenditures go up if Russia wins?
Maybe there's an argument to be made about the unpredictability of a cornered adversary.
@xenon said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
The U.S. is shouldering a ton of cost for Ukraine
Saw a paper that talked about the economic impact the "money to Ukraine" has had on local economies as actually the money is generally going to weapon manufacturing and the associated businesses.
(Yes, it is being spent on Ukraine, but the impact is in the US. But I guess that is the same with most arms sales.)
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@xenon said in Zelensky Speaks in PA:
The U.S. is shouldering a ton of cost for Ukraine
Saw a paper that talked about the economic impact the "money to Ukraine" has had on local economies as actually the money is generally going to weapon manufacturing and the associated businesses.
(Yes, it is being spent on Ukraine, but the impact is in the US. But I guess that is the same with most arms sales.)
Subsidies in the form of government contracts to munitions manufacturers and service companies. Most technical assistance through USEXIM bank to developing countries is similar.
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Back to the original subject...
We know it's not Biden calling the shots nowadays (seen the latest videos?), but it's the same hyperpolitical Beltway approach. Lawfare, willing media manipulation, leaked hoaxes, selective DOJ harassment and prosecution...Now the use of a foreign leader traveling on the American dime, trying to influence a Presidential election.
It's all part and parcel of the same thing.
And it's rotten.
