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    Did the Trump admin actually halt weapons or just announce it for the Putin phone call. "At President Trump's direction, the Department of Defense is sending additional defensive weapons to Ukraine"

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    Nobody knows what's actually happening with that ass clown. It's by design and makes for more compelling TV episodes.

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    Putin needs cash for his war chest, he just had some gold oligarch dude’s plane stopped from leaving the country and seized his assets


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    So Trump stops weapons to make Putin happy, then announces "more weapons" which was really just uncancelling what he cancelled as if he was helping Ukraine, and all he has actually done is piss off the MAGAtards who ascribe to the Russian info-ops saying "Ukraine bad"
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    I think it is just his alzheimer's. Putin, in his old memories, is someone on his side, a friend for reasons we don't completely understand.

    You can snap him out of this mindset briefly, which seems to have happened here again, but he will soon (or likely already has) forget the new information and revert to Putin good, halt shipments to Ukraine.

    Short term memory is the first to go.

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    Ruhollah Khomeini, Putin and Xi Jinping have all been hiding more. Putin has up ticked arresting and killing of his servants. North Korea is ignored in the news. It's just different this last month.

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    Same shit different day on the axis of evil, of which the US of Aholes is an aspirational contender.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meconium View Post
    Did the Trump admin actually halt weapons or just announce it for the Putin phone call. "At President Trump's direction, the Department of Defense is sending additional defensive weapons to Ukraine"
    Apparently Hegseth made the decision to halt the shipments (earlier to day when a reporter asked Trump who ordered the halt he replied -I dont know, why dont you tell me-):

    “Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, according to five sources familiar with the matter, setting off a scramble inside the administration to understand why the halt was implemented … ”

    https://bsky.app/profile/jdunlevy.bs.../3ltiqds5p3226

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    Quote Originally Posted by J. Barron DeJong View Post
    Apparently Hegseth made the decision to halt the shipments (earlier to day when a reporter asked Trump who ordered the halt he replied -I dont know, why dont you tell me-):

    “Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth did not inform the White House before he authorized a pause on weapons shipments to Ukraine last week, according to five sources familiar with the matter, setting off a scramble inside the administration to understand why the halt was implemented … ”

    https://bsky.app/profile/jdunlevy.bs.../3ltiqds5p3226
    Bullshit. Hegseth can't scratch his own balls without Trump or Milller's ok. This is all Trump and his impulse parade.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Reverend Floater View Post
    Bullshit. Hegseth can't scratch his own balls without Trump or Milller's ok. This is all Trump and his impulse parade.
    100 percent. The coordinated response is laughable. And Hegseth still running the show. And sanctions put off...yet again...after agreeing to them.

    Same junkshow. Different groundhog day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Reverend Floater View Post
    Bullshit. Hegseth can't scratch his own balls without Trump or Milller's ok. This is all Trump and his impulse parade.
    Trump does not know like 90% of what the executive office is doing. He just likes to get on teevee.

    Miller absolutely makes decisions without him. Not sure why you think Hegseth could not. Especially when the story is confirmed by multiple media networks, and multiple sources providing the information.

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    ^^^This

    Maybe Ive watched too many movies about the mob and rubbed elbows with too many low level mobsters. Trump is running his secret and illegal organization with a tried and true method. Way back at the beginning Russia was said to be binge watching the Sopranos. The Don tells Capo what the end goal is and the Capo gets it done the best he can.
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    The question is not so much whether Trump was directly involved but instead whether this is why Hegseth was appointed to the job in first place. Whether Hegseth was meant to be the hatchet man while at the same time giving Trump deniability. After all, Hegseth has a history of pro-Russian anti-Ukraine sentiment going back well before joining the current administration:

    https://x.com/AccountableGOP/status/1942759029412974771

    https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1942963359357268201

    The larger issue, even more so than weapons deliveries, is the fact Russia now believes it has a greenlight to bomb Ukraine indiscriminately. We'll have our answer depending on whether team Trump pushes back on what is approaching 1,000 *nightly* Russian bombing/drone/missile attacks. Trump talks sanctions in response, but obviously action is what matters

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    He was put there for his Fox experience working in front of the camera loyalty and thats about it. His job as Capo is to keep the culture wars fired up. Any drunk fool can get a ship renamed and trans tossed out.
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    When it comes to Ukraine though, we still don't know. Another possibility is that Trump just likes Putin whereas policy WRT Hegseth etc. is JD Vance's doing. I say that because Trump is waking to the fact that Putin is playing him. That's obvious to most people but unlike JD's cohort of culture warriors, Trump himself hasn't really joined the "Russia will save the West" chorus

    "We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He's very nice all the time but it turns out to be meaningless." -- Trump

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    Quote Originally Posted by MultiVerse View Post

    "We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth. He's very nice all the time but it turns out to be meaningless." -- Trump
    Honest question.....do you think anyone tells him how unbelievably naive and foolish he sounds at this 'realization'?
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    From the AP:
    President Donald Trump was hosting West African leaders in Washington, where he praised the English of President of Liberia Joseph Boakai and asked where he learned it. The official language of Liberia is English.
    You think anyone in his circle laughed at his on-brand ignorance?

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    Quote Originally Posted by frorider View Post
    From the AP: You think anyone in his circle laughed at his on-brand ignorance?
    Saw that yesterday, fucking asinine even by his standards.

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    I hadn't thought about Melania Trump's game:

    Trump on Putin: “I go home and I tell the First Lady, ‘you know I spoke to Putin today, we had a wonderful conversation,’ she says ‘oh really? Another [Ukrainian] city was just hit.’”

    https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/1944785242075840909

    Certainly ironic if Trump, who is himself partial to Putin, ends up backing Ukraine because his Slavic wife knows what the Kremlin is really about

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    An American father who moved to Russia to avoid LGBTQ+ “indoctrination” for his kids is being sent to the front line against Ukraine despite being assured he would serve in a non-combat role. Derek Huffman, 46, feels he is being “thrown to the wolves” after being told that his job in the military would be as a correspondent or as a welder, his wife, DeAnna, said in a recorded
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    ^^HA! Almost eligible for a Darwin. Too bad he reproduced.
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