You can't give away what you can't control
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I see Vivek Ramaswamy is gunning to be the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century. Giving Putin what he wants is like trying to appease Hitler. Putin's expressed ideology is for Russia to conquerer Europe. He is not going to stop with the Donbas region or Ukraine. The best thing for everyone, including the Russian people, is for Russia as we know it to collapse into smaller countries.
This video by Kraut does a good job explaining Putin's ideology.
Not to mention by supporting Ukraine, the US is sending a clear message to China that they will be met with force if they try invade Taiwan. It doesn't benefit anyone other than Russia and China to work with them and give them what they want. Dictatorships are always going to be incentivized to backstab democracies. Democracies are going to champion human rights, where as other dictatorships will look the other way. So no matter how hard you try to separate Russia and China they are always going to be incentivized to work with each other.
And the little cooperation between China and Russia is not worth backstabbing Ukraine over.
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Hahahaha, he'll get Russia to sever military alliances with China eh? I'm sure they'll kindly pack up their things and leave Ukraine alone, just like they did in 1991. Putin has showed his hand. He's not to be trusted with any diplomatic issue. He will not abide by American rhetoric. Negotiating terms where Ukraine is blocked from joining NATO simply signals to the West's enemies that if you're able to make inroads, we'll make concessions. It's ultimately as weak piss of a foreign policy as it gets.
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.
Paid by russia
Given how many jokes I've made about Trump ordering Ukraine to "just surrender" in a second term, I'm not mad, I'm just sad that my low opinion of the world is justified and accurate.
Fuck you Vivek, you fawning douchebag
Is there no remotely sane candidate in the Republican party? It's not even a matter of supporting bad policies anymore, they have literally lost their minds and betray the very values this country is supposed to stand for
He is the ultimate grifter...I wonder what kind of donation that got from the NRA.
I'm so glad he feels confident enough to do such a thing.
You would have thought that not been Ukrainian would make him think he has no right to make that decision, fortunately not.
This guy has no idea what geopolitics is and how the East is playing it.
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I don't get why he thinks Russia would end a military alliance after being given everything they want without having to end that alliance. And what makes him think other nations won't still back Ukraine? We would just be putting ourselves on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of the war.
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Please don't let us lose our focus now that there is some progress, russia is not a reliable partner for any negotiations anyways. Also russia won't break their cooperation with china ever...
Ask yourself, if they (russia) really wanted to negotiate than they would stop their massacre already. They aren't slowing down.
He can't realistically win potus, so he's only running to angle for {ed: Worst. Ever.} Sec of State position in the next GQP admin
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It will never not blow my mind that people alive during the cold War and all that drama are like yeah... liberal Americans are the enemy! We have more on common with Russia so we feel comfortable backing them in anything.
I guess fuck Ukraine's right to self-determination?