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N.M. Iversen's avatar

I still believe Trump wants peace, but I don’t think he has full agency.

Peace means Russian defeat of Ukraine and NATO. It will likely mean the end of NATO, the EU, Liberal Democracy and unipolarity. The Russia/Ukraine war is therefore an existential threat as much to NATO as it is to Russia.

From what I have read in terms of manpower and industrial capacity, Russia should achieve military victory. Victory for NATO could result from exhaustion. Keep the war and the status quo going. Time is on NATO’s side not on Russia’s. Zelensky, the Europeans and neocons want the war to continue ad infinitum. Trump is a question mark. So is Putin.

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Tom Paine's avatar

NATO should have been ended when the Warsaw Pact ended. NATO/ Neocons provoked this conflict and are controlling Trump the Chump.

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N.M. Iversen's avatar

It should, but as has been said, the purpose of NATO is to "keep the Russians out, the Germans down and the Americans in". The last two are still operative. NATO is not a defence alliance but the spearhead of the imperial "Liberal Democracy."

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DocHollywood's avatar

That’s all true. “NATO exists to manage the risks created by its existence.”

—Richard Sakwa, British professor

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frankly's avatar

Had me till the time is on NATO side. The Western show of mobilization of forces tells the tale. The Russians build. The US promotes a marketing scheme.

The US laughs at how Russia's tanks look, yet they roll on.

I would still like to hear a neocon or EU bigwig explain the Stephan Bandera obsession within the Ukrainian top leadership. How do we wind up supporting Nazis?

The shift in core belief is just too dramatic. Yet where is the cognitive dissonance? In the sixties we hated Krauts now we promote the 4th? Reich?

Oh so sure if we were supporting them all along, that makes sense. Yeah insisting Zelenskyy is Jewish so there can be no Nazis, that makes me feel way better about it all.

NOT!

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frankly's avatar

There is a certain wisdom with inciting contentious debate in the world. After decades of a controlled narrative many folks have had it with the status quo and particular the debased MSM ignoring the obvious.

My understanding is Putin is often under pressure to be more aggressive in Ukraine. He seems more intent to build his industrial capacity 1st. Trump ran on peace, now he seems to be saying to his public, if you really want peace make some noise, these war mongers got a big stick.

Like with Pam Bondi, her actions galvanized those opposing tyranny, got them energized, she is certainly tough enough to play the bad cop here. Tougher yet to change course when shown to be wrong. A rare treat!

JFK made many comments about the citizens rising up and getting involved. The Oligarchs have more pull than the public now. That status quo must be torn a part, the bureaucracies must go, we can not afford them, nor survive their agenda. Institutionalized corruption and WEF inspired genocide.

We get it! They want us sick till our moneys gone and then dead.

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José S Mendez's avatar

If you believe on Trump you are a perfect idiot and he loves you so take your daugthers and let him take care of them. Certainly trump is missing epstein slave girls. Americans and anglo saxons and lots of frenchies and boches are perverts maniacs psychopaths lunatics.

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Joanna Martin's avatar

MAGA does NOT want war with Russia!

Many of us understand that Americans have more in common with Russia than with NATO.

Joanna Martin

Tennessee, USA

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Boris Perc's avatar

He will bomb Moscow. Yes in 72 hours northern hemisphere will be in nuclear winter for decades to come - no way elites will survive this, maybe they prepared robots to clean our mountains and soil so next generation of humans if they will survive could live outside: https://x.com/borisperc/status/1936726850383847734

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