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Trump just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history, with flared tempers, raised voices, and shredded protocol.

Never before has a U.S. president bullied and berated an adversary, never mind an ally, in such a public way.

During a tense Oval Office meeting, Trump and JD Vance attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, demanding he accept a peace deal with Russia or lose U.S. support.

The conversation devolved into shouting, with Trump accusing Zelenskyy of being ungrateful and “gambling with World War III.”

The meeting ended in chaos, with no agreement reached.

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[–] Wrench@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (21 children)

Congrats Never Genocide people posing as Progressives. We fucking warned you that exactly this was going to happen. Trump and his cult would side with Russia and throw Ukraine under the bus.

Great fucking job.

And great fucking job, Mods, for protecting those fucks in the name of civility.

We are the baddies now. And we got here because you'd rather protect Nazis from being punched in the mouth for their words and actions in the name of civility.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Doing God's work in excusing the DNC's unwillingness to do what it took to defeat Trump (just like, right now, they're not doing what it takes to stop him).

For the instinctive ass-kisser it's never the Royalty who is to blame, always the plebes.

With an "opposition" that doesn't actually oppose and is ever less representative of the population, Project 2025 was always going to happen, sooner or later, since the trend of the last 2 decades has been ever more of far right populism, propped up by the Democrats' ever more Rightwing policies and ever less trying to represent the broader population (and repeatedly using "we're not them" as their entire electoral strategy).

You know what might've worked? Not having licked the boots of the Democrat Leadership during the last decade or two.

Now, you're getting to enjoy the bed you made for yourself.

[–] jalkasieni@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago (7 children)

They really have you all wrapped around their fingers, don’t they? Your democracy is literally on fire around you and the best both ”sides” can do is bicker whose fault it is.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Funny how you instantly presumed my opinion was from "They" (whomever "they" are).

Way to project how you see politics - in a Tribalist and Unthinking "Follow the Leader" way - onto others.

It's exactly through reasoning logically up from actual Principles that one concludes that the Democrat Party leadership are nothing more than unprincipled slick grifters representing whomever pays them better (which invariably are some very, very rich people), even when many of the common members of Democrat Party aren't at all like that but have either been swindled into going along with it (easy to do when people are tribalists and hence whatever their "leaders" tells them needs not be questioned with a keen skeptical eye) or just disempowered via anti-democratic mechanisms such as "super delegates".

America is as America is now thanks to all the useful idiots, and that's both the ones on the Republican and on the Democrat side.

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