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slightlv

(7,760 posts)
5. trump IS a Russian Asset...
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 07:09 PM
9 hrs ago

has been for decades. Russia plays the long game. They never planned to bomb or go to war with the US, they knew they could take us down from the inside... because OUR oligarchs are just like THEIR oligarchs! One thing Putin knows is how to "handle" rich white men.

And I do hope we don't get into semantics... that crap is driving me crazy. He can't be a traitor because he doesn't fit the very narrow single definition of treason. And yet, anyone with a lick of sense sees what he's doing as treason. We have to either come up with new words for his crimes, or redefine the existing ones. Because he ain't getting out of this alive...

bucolic_frolic

(54,876 posts)
3. The war is a gift to US oil producers
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 06:30 PM
9 hrs ago

US is the world's largest exporter of oil. We are raking in the petrodollars

wnylib

(25,762 posts)
14. What if people on both sides just flat out refused
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 08:48 PM
7 hrs ago

to fight? It happened briefly in WWI on Christmas Eve. Both sides saw no point in fighting each other on the holiday that was supposed to celebrate peace on earth. They laid down their arms and met each other in no man's land between the lines.

Why should soldiers fight and die on behalf of oligarchs and dictators who sell war in the name of patriotism when it is only for the personal gain of the leaders who start the war?

BurnDoubt

(1,649 posts)
4. Not to worry. It's all going according to plan.
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 07:04 PM
9 hrs ago

By next Christmas you’ll be able to afford twenty Russian Nesting Dolls!!!!!!!!
Winning!!!!!!

surfered

(13,111 posts)
9. Ignoring Putin giving targeting intelligence to Iran while allowing Russia to better fund their war against Ukraine.
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 07:52 PM
8 hrs ago

…Just to save his own political skin from his own stupid decision, which drove up fuel prices

Skittles

(171,282 posts)
10. Trump sure does a lot of stuff that helps Russia
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 08:00 PM
8 hrs ago

nothing to see here, move along............

Skittles

(171,282 posts)
17. of course they do
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 09:25 PM
6 hrs ago

imagine what Trump would be saying about a short, bald man otherwise

Botany

(77,134 posts)
13. Trump's war on Iran also makes the oil he is stealing from Venezuela worth more money too.
Sat Mar 14, 2026, 08:44 PM
7 hrs ago

N/t

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