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Thanks for the laughTrump and Vance will be impeached and removed after a landslide ‘26 win by Democrats, making Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries, president.
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Thanks for the laughTrump and Vance will be impeached and removed after a landslide ‘26 win by Democrats, making Speaker of the House Hakeem Jeffries, president.
For the Elon Musk/DOGE Party it’s an inevitability, unless they go full fascist.Thanks for the laugh
Biden's weakness led to the second Russian invasion of Ukraine. Obama's weakness led to the first invasion of Ukraine.
Biden ordered the chaotic withdrawal that led to the deaths of 13 servicemembers. Trump had already left office.
Russia doesn't need to pay anyone to see the pattern.
Not going to happen. America ain't buying what Democrats are peddlingFor the Elon Musk/DOGE Party it’s an inevitability, unless they go full fascist.
.Not going to happen. America ain't buying what Democrats are peddling
They’re having buyers’ remorse over what Trump’s peddling.Not going to happen. America ain't buying what Democrats are peddling
DemoKKKrats seem oblivious to the fact that we watched their party cozy up to the Soviets (and then the Russians) for DECADES. It was only in 2016, when Hillary Clinton decided she could make a lot of money starting a war with Russia, that suddenly the Dems started pretending otherwise.
Trump’s trying to break the trend, having already broken the impeachment record.Going back in history every war in the bloody 20th century started during a democrat administration.
DemoKKKrats seem oblivious to the fact that we watched their party cozy up to the Soviets (and then the Russians) for DECADES. It was only in 2016, when Hillary Clinton decided she could make a lot of money starting a war with Russia, that suddenly the Dems started pretending otherwise.
Send to ‘History’ forum."Ted Kennedy's Soviet Gambit
Aug 28, 2009, 12:01am EDT
Picking his way through the Soviet archives that Boris Yeltsin had just thrown open, in 1991 Tim Sebastian, a reporter for the London Times, came across an arresting memorandum. Composed in 1983 by Victor Chebrikov, the top man at the KGB, the memorandum was addressed to Yuri Andropov, the top man in the entire USSR. The subject: Sen. Edward Kennedy.
"On 9-10 May of this year," the May 14 memorandum explained, "Sen. Edward Kennedy's close friend and trusted confidant [John] Tunney was in Moscow." (Tunney was Kennedy's law school roommate and a former Democratic senator from California.) "The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Y. Andropov."
Kennedy's message was simple. He proposed an unabashed quid pro quo. Kennedy would lend Andropov a hand in dealing with President Reagan. In return, the Soviet leader would lend the Democratic Party a hand in challenging Reagan in the 1984 presidential election. "The only real potential threats to Reagan are problems of war and peace and Soviet-American relations," the memorandum stated. "These issues, according to the senator, will without a doubt become the most important of the election campaign.""
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Ted Kennedy's Soviet Gambit
Considering the late senator's complete record requires digging into the USSR's archives.www.forbes.com
Recheck your premise2013: Obama's "red line" is crossed by chemical weapons being used in Syria. There is no serious US military response.
2014: Putin invades Ukraine for the first time.
Have you ever heard the old saying “ you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”? Vilifying someone you are trying to negotiate with is counter-productive. Stroking a dictator’s ego costs nothing but can yield real dividends. Trump may be a blowhard and borderline sociopath, but he is a proven negotiator who gets results. Trump will work for the best possible peace in Ukraine, but as much as I hate to admit it, any peace will have to give Putin at least some of what he wants, or needs. Without something he can point to as a victory, Putin faces a very real death sentence from his rivals inside Russia. He will not let that happen, he’s too much the KGB apparatchik that he spent most of his life being. Both sides in the Ukraine war need a victory of some sort. I would prefer to see Russia utterly defeated and pushed back within its 2013 borders, but even with a great deal of western support, Ukraine lacks the manpower to do that.When Moscow wants some propaganda repeated, the Trump cutists here all jump to obey.
Why? Because Moscow knows Republicans will work for Moscow. It takes surprisingly little money to buy them off.
Very few people actually believe Trump is a good negotiator. He uses bully tactics; that’s not negotiation.Have you ever heard the old saying “ you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”? Vilifying someone you are trying to negotiate with is counter-productive. Stroking a dictator’s ego costs nothing but can yield real dividends. Trump may be a blowhard and borderline sociopath, but he is a proven negotiator who gets results. Trump will work for the best possible peace in Ukraine, but as much as I hate to admit it, any peace will have to give Putin at least some of what he wants, or needs. Without something he can point to as a victory, Putin faces a very real death sentence from his rivals inside Russia. He will not let that happen, he’s too much the KGB apparatchik that he spent most of his life being. Both sides in the Ukraine war need a victory of some sort. I would prefer to see Russia utterly defeated and pushed back within its 2013 borders, but even with a great deal of western support, Ukraine lacks the manpower to do that.
Sure, Konnie.Very few people actually believe Trump is a good negotiator. He uses bully tactics; that’s not negotiation.
IMOLink?
So you admit that you were just speaking baselessly — yet without the candor to say as much until you got called on it.
Just like you. Why would you consider what I say baseless, when you do the same? I guess because you’re the one without candor.So you admit that you were just speaking baselessly — yet without the candor to say as much until you got called on it.
"Vilifying someone you are trying to negotiate with is counter-productive" Well, that is what Trump did with Zelenksy.Have you ever heard the old saying “ you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar”? Vilifying someone you are trying to negotiate with is counter-productive. Stroking a dictator’s ego costs nothing but can yield real dividends. Trump may be a blowhard and borderline sociopath, but he is a proven negotiator who gets results. Trump will work for the best possible peace in Ukraine, but as much as I hate to admit it, any peace will have to give Putin at least some of what he wants, or needs. Without something he can point to as a victory, Putin faces a very real death sentence from his rivals inside Russia. He will not let that happen, he’s too much the KGB apparatchik that he spent most of his life being. Both sides in the Ukraine war need a victory of some sort. I would prefer to see Russia utterly defeated and pushed back within its 2013 borders, but even with a great deal of western support, Ukraine lacks the manpower to do that.