Re: Trump wins US Presidency for a 2nd Term
 

The thing about politics is you need the right kind of nutters behind you,just look at our government.

Re: Trump wins US Presidency for a 2nd Term
 

Don't do this to me, Pierre! :D

Re: Trump wins US Presidency for a 2nd Term
 

The Russian have said the quiet bit out aloud. No surprises though ...

Putin Aide Issues Ominous Warning About Trump’s New “Obligations”

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Not until Hamas have been destroyed

https://youtu.be/qtY3yf4v9aw?si=TMlLK7_kBDRq8Nsv

I think that’s clear.

Re: Trump wins US Presidency for a 2nd Term
 

There are a few decent people left in the US. Dick van Dyke is still alive!. Well done sir. Cor blimey Mary Poppins etc.... Don't blame him if he calls it a day now.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-b2646460.html

Re: Trump wins US Presidency for a 2nd Term
 

Make Diagnosis…….murder, Great again.

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Oh yeah it's clear, Huckerbee doesn't even recognise the West Bank as a place

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About as objective as naming someone accused of sex trafficking as attorney general and thus meaning a highly critical report by the house ethics committee about his drug taking and under age sex that was going to be released with in a week is now not going to be, drain the swamp he's hiring directly from the worst depths of it

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Looks like he may have found them:

Zelensky’s nuclear option: Ukraine ‘months away’ from bomb

Re: Trump wins US Presidency for a 2nd Term
 

Zelensky is truly going for “rogue state” status with that threat. The Americans have toppled one democratically elected government in Ukraine and Zelensky’s term has expired. It shouldn’t be too hard for the CIA to inject a dose of ye olde freedom and democracy if required.

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You know you can keep repeating that as often as you like without it ever actually becoming true. ;)

… and it’s in no way unusual for a country under existential threat to suspend elections. Though I agree, Trump and his cabal are just as adept at parroting Putin’s talking points as you are, and might, suitably motivated, feel obliged to help put them in practice, against the will of the people of Ukraine.

Re: Trump wins US Presidency for a 2nd Term
 

The UK also kept suspending elections during WW2. (or, for the pedantic, the European part of WW2)

When you're facing an existential threat then that is the entire focus of the country.

Re: Trump wins US Presidency for a 2nd Term
 

These things can all be true at once. If the Trump administration decides he’s not legitimate, and he’s threatening to build a dirty bomb, that ends one way. :sniper:

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Lots of dead Russians ?

A couple of shovel fulls of chateux de chernobyl dumped over a city would spice it up

Re: Trump wins US Presidency for a 2nd Term
 

True, but you’re making assumptions about Trump’s likely response in Ukraine that are untethered from the things Trump has already said. He wants to decouple himself from expensive international distractions that cost America money (leave aside whether that’s a sound analysis on his part for the moment).

I agree that a rational US administration modelled on almost any one of those that has held power since WW2 might well attempt to remove Zelensky rather than allow nuclear proliferation in the dead zone between Nato and Russia, but your problem is right there in the word ‘rational’. Trump isn’t a 4D chess player. He’s a narcissist. He does the next thing that has something in it for Trump. If he asks someone to plan an intervention against Ukraine’s interests he will be confronted with more follow-up questions than he could ever be bothered to think about, starting with the explicit support for Ukraine across Europe and the presence of more than one western power’s special forces in-country.

And if they did decide to go for it, let’s not even get started on the logistics - Russia has had operatives infiltrated across Ukrainian society who look and talk like Ukrainians and yet they haven’t managed to whack him in more than 2 years. I can’t see the Americans getting anywhere near him.