He thought it would be as easy as Venezuela. They just pop up, kill the Ayatollah and replace it with another person (doesn’t matter it makes no sense)
In reality he installed Aya-TOLL-ah, lifted sanctions on Iran, turned US bases in Middle East from assets to liabilities and ensured that now Iran will definitively get nuclear weapons.
He is doing what putin asks. Putin loves creating dilemmas.
The ideal (for putin) scenario would be to have Europe to decide between getting oil from Russia (this is why trump lifted sanctions) or get involved in Middle East.
Both of those would lead to decreased support for Ukraine, first one he could threaten to cut oil off they didn’t, the second would be very unpopular with public and Russia would exploit isolationist tendencies.
I’m actually glad that it looks like Ukraine is bombing Baltic terminals and Europe realized that greeting involved in the mess trump started will make things even worse.
And yeah there are people saying “how can trump new helping Russia when he attacked Venezuela and Iran who are Russian allies” the answer to it is to look if those actions helped putin or hurt putin.
In Venezuela he removed Maduro but kept the old Russian friendly government.
Iran it massively helped. The oil prices spiked when previously Russia was selling at a loss, by helping Iran Russia still is seen as ally and now US is dragged to the same war Russia sights with Ukraine (ideally he would want rest of NATO be dragged there too).
Per WARN Act aren’t they required to provide 60 days to everyone?
NATO is a defensive alliance. It was used only once (right after 9/11).
In the past individual nations can choose to help, but that’s outside of NATO’s purpose.
No nation wants to help because 1) few months ago he threatened to attack NATO 2) the mess he created is massive and also no one trusts US government to be competent right now, so getting involved will only end up with even bigger losses
Ok, but since you didn’t know that means you didn’t do it before you retired.
Also why does it bother you that someone might get some help for caring for people? Also the example that you gave about elderly parents would be treated the same way.
The reason employers do this is because they rather give that time to the employee rather than have them quit, because any normal person will put family first.
That’s the thing, they love fear. They hate ridicule. Do you think the person holding the sign is afraid of Mike “I don’t have details about that” Johnson?
One of the best weapon about fascists is ridicule. They want people to fear them. Humor is like a kryptonite to them.
Gaddafi got one, Mussolini too.
Actually many companies offer time off for these kinds of activities. My current company does and I saw it in previous ones as well.
This sounds like a hypothetical, because if you were involved in those activities, you likely would know about it.
Whomever wrote that never had children.
No, there are other shits at least as big as him.
They turned it back on after Ukraine attacked Moscow, because with weapons blocked and no intelligence, US couldn’t influence Ukraine anymore.
The intelligence was very important early on in the war and it helped a lot on the front lines, but since then Ukraine made sure to remove its dependence on it and blinding Russia as well. Right now majority of it is done through drones.
You are trying really hard to justify yourself supporting Republicans, when all evidence shows that trump wants Russia to win this war. For example Russia was struggling with their exports, he starts a war with Iran and lifts sanctions on Russia. Ukraine makes devastating attack on oil terminals in the Baltic, trump says that the money EU paid for Ukraine through PURL (almost $1B) he will divert instead sending to Ukraine (you might say “AHA! So you admit Ukraine is still receiving US weapons”, yes they do (or did), but US just selling them and adds additional 10% markup, it is just weapons dealer. India also sell weapons to Ukraine, but no one calls that “helping”, at least India delivers the weapons when is paid, while US is now even breaking that).
Take a step back and see the big picture what is actually happening.
He was elected in 2022, so his next election is in 2028.
Senators are elected for 6 years. House Representatives have election every 2 years.
Edit: gotta love the down vote, as if facts didn’t matter, just feelings or as if I wrote the Constitution.
As someone who lives under the rock. I heard her opinion on trans but made me wonder what was with the trans character in Hogwarts Legacy? Did the company placed the character to troll her or something?
At the same time we should not give up diplomatic options. We should send Iran the entire cabinet as a gesture of good will.
My belief is that most likely it worked by collecting kompromat on rich and powerful and then selling the material to the highest bidder.
Those secret documents he held in Mar a Lago (which he was holding and doing acrobatics to not return) were also meant to be sold the same way.
Russia never treat their allies the same way the West same with their people.
putin had no problem killing 300 and injury almost 2000 Russian to get elected. It seems to be difficult for people who live far away from them to understand it.
This is why Ukraine is fighting. This is why any the loudest voices against Russia are its direct neighbors.
Country is an ally of Russia only if they share common enemy, are too naive or have no other choice.
The guy who resigned claimed that FBI blocked investigation into that assassination:
Venezuela - he removed Maduro (who wasn’t even effective leader) and replaced him with the same Russian friendly regime. Now Venezuela has pretext to cut China (including its investments) and have less sources of oil (increase dependence on Russia)
Iran - he replaced 86 years old Khamenei who (in Iranian standards was chill and open to make deals with US) with 56 years old much more radical Khamenei Jr. Every armchair exists knew that Iran would block Strait of Hormuz, and even Iran themselves said that they will close it and start shooting at neighbors in the event of attack. Again, Strait of Hormuz provided majority of oil to Asia, especially China. Now for strange reasons trump also lifted sanctions on Russian oil, which wouldn’t affect price only allowed Russia to charge more for it. Also Russia is domestically producing Shaheds, they don’t need Iran for that.
Cuba - hard to talk about it, as this haven’t happen yet, he just blocked oil import to them, but I will be shocked if this somehow will lead to them having a democratic government. Frankly though I don’t think Russia cares about Cuba that much.
The sanctions he’s lifting on Russia demonstrate how disastrous the war has been and do help Russia (as does an increase in oil prices). But cutting off a producer of Shaheds does not, isolating Russia on the world stage by hurting its allies does not, continuing to (mostly) allow Ukraine to use American intelligence does not, etc.
The Russia already sells their oil on global market, lifting sanctions doesn’t increase amount of oil for the rest of the world, all it does is allows Russia to sell at higher price. You can call it a dumbass move, but his dumbass moves always benefit Russia somehow.
Shaheds as I mentioned earlier are now produced domestically in Russia, they no longer need Iran for that.
With the American intelligence it is actually no clear information. I saw article saying they actually sharing it to help targeting Russian oil infrastructure, then from the same time there’s article that US was promising that will share intelligence.
The fact that US was asking Ukraine to stop after it hit hub in Novorossiysk tells me that the intelligence sharing was just bullshit. In fact what kind of intelligence US could share about those terminals. They don’t have wheels and their locations aren’t secret. What kind of information would US provide about then that Ukraine wouldn’t have from their agents that are inside of Russia? It is bullshit information to help with narrative that he is somehow neutral.
I dunno whether people who spout this are conspiracy brained or just don’t think about it much but either way, please think.
I woulda encourage you to take your advice yourself. You are writing it assuming others didn’t see the information that you have when in reality you are missing things. Like for example Russia has production of shaheds, it modified them to work better and now it’s providing them to Iran to his US bases.
Yes, and no. From my experience it was done slightly differently.
They gave the paycheck for 60 days + additional severance (which was additional 1 month if you signed that you won’t sue) as one lump sum and saying that there’s 3 months severance.
I think the only difference between first two and this month was that I think there was still medical insurance for the 60 days.