#Welker might be a RW stooge who tends to let #Republicans off the hook FAR too easily, but on those rare moments we ACTUALLY get some push-back, I'm not above offering kudos.
Sec of State "Lit'l #Marco" went on #MeetTheRepublicans to defend #PutinsPoodle's handling of the #Ukraine War negotiations and whether #DJChump will now (re)impose #sanctions on #Russia.
#Rubio defended #TheOrangeMenace (natch), but Welker threw Marco's own words from 2022 in his face re: #Putin:
"This is not only a disaster for Ukraine, though it is obviously that. It is also the destruction of global architecture that has stood for many decades – and it is hardly a lone case. Trump’s tariff fetish is similarly upending a system of international trade that had made the world, and especially the US, more prosperous."
#Putin #Trump #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle #tariffs #economy
/5
"To see the true face of Donald Trump, look no further than Ukraine. Laid bare in his handling of that issue are not only his myriad weaknesses, but also the danger he poses to his own country and the wider world – to say nothing of the battered people of Ukraine itself."
~ Jonathan Freedland
"Beware of 'peace' proposals from autocrats. ... Autocrats want to make the world safe for them to plunder, kill, and steal, and the Trump administration is now the accomplice of such criminal activity."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #Putin #Russia #Ukraine #autocrats #strongmen #PutinsPoodle
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https://lucid.substack.com/p/trump-shows-his-hand-as-a-putin-partner
"Simply put, the Trump administration is pushing a plan of Ukrainian surrender. …
The rest of the world sees this proposal for what it is: the sudden abandonment of our ally in exchange for a false promise of peace."
~ Alexander Vindman
#Trump #Putin #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
/8
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-chaos-weekend-at-bernies/
"President Trump and his top aides demanded on Wednesday that Ukraine accede to an American-designed proposal that would essentially grant Russia all the territory it has gained in the war, while offering Kyiv only vague security assurances."
~ David E. Sanger, Michael D. Shear and Mark Landler
#Trump #Putin #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
/7
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/world/europe/ukraine-cease-fire-talks-london.html
For photos of what's taking place in Kyiv right now as Putin shells the city, see this Guardian photo-essay today.
"For this, Ukraine gets basically nothing . . . . The Trump 'peace' plan is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender, and the Ukrainians are unlikely to accept it."
"If Trump has his way, Washington will lift sanctions against Russia; both sides will accept a cease-fire in place (leaving Russian troops on newly conquered Ukrainian territory), and the United States will agree to recognize Crimea as part of Russia (leaving the Kremlin with full ownership of previously conquered territory)."
~ Tom Nichols
"On Wednesday, the Trump administration effectively told Ukraine to surrender under threat of the US simply washing its hands of the war."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Putin #Russia #Ukraine #PutinsPoodle
/3
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/political-gravity-pulls-trump-back
"To the surprise of approximately nobody, the U.S. plan—as The New York Times puts it oh so politely—'closely mirrors longstanding Russian demands.'”
~ Charles Pierce
As Heather Cox Richardson notes,
"This U.S.-backed plan [for peace beteeen Russian and Ukraine] echoes almost entirely the plan Russian operatives presented to Trump’s 2016 campaign manager Paul Manafort in exchange for helping Trump win the White House. Russia had invaded Ukraine in 2014 and was looking for a way to grab the land it wanted without continuing to fight."
Morning, all,
as Crimea was 'originally' Russian, the Trump administration is going to recognise Putin's illegal 2014 annexation of the peninsula?
And Donald Trump will be returning Alaska to Russia, which originally owned that too?
Imagine if Don The Con not Roosevelt had been POTUS in January 1942...
Trump would've ended World War Two on Day One by allowing Adolf ("a good friend of mine") to keep Poland and France.
#POTUS45 #GOP #MAGA
#Krasnov #AgentOrange
#PutinsPoodle #TraitorTrump
The Marmalade Mussolini has just had his annual check-up and is in peak physical and mental condition (tho the bone spurs weren't mentioned).
Fear not, were the 78-year-old #POTUS45 to die in office, the #VPOTUS will succeed him, and J.D.Vance is a veritable "safe pair of hands..." #Sarcasticon
#Trump #OrangeLiesMatter
#Krasnov #AgentOrange #PutinsPoodle 
https://youtu.be/dipticshJfg?si=IGranup6KLJTvz3u
Morning, all
Q: What do you call 100 lawyers chained together on the ocean-floor?
A: A good start.
Yeah, we all luv lawyer jokes but sans lawyers judges don't get to judge.
Who'd have thunk Niemöller's updated catechism would start with:
"First they came for the lawyers, but as I wasn't a blood-sucking bottom-feeding leech I didn't speak out..."
#SlavaUkrayini #Trump
#AmericanCoup #EmperorTrump
#TraitorTrump #PutinsPoodle
#GOP #MAGA #POTUS45
#Krasnov #AgentOrange
https://youtu.be/FrX7VVlbHk0?si=rgajv_JN-oDwvRXb
Reminds me of the special rendition titled instead as ‘Ode To Freedom,’ performed on the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
And this one, in which the US Army trolled their Commander-in-Chief as he sat before them at the Governors’ Dinner, with their rendition of the revolutionary song from Les Miserables.
Les would’ve been so proud:
#SlavaUkrayini
#Trump #TraitorTrump
#FelonTrump #PutinsPoodle
#Krasnov #AgentOrange
#POTUS45 #POTUS404
#GOP #MAGA
#Nastiz #Tories #Farage #Sasha
https://youtu.be/IQ1J0HCZS74?si=1VA_qT_mmtnSePqB
"It was a bloodbath on Wall Street today, as Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs are liberating people from their retirement savings and investments. The Dow was down 2,231 (5.50%), NASDAQ was down 962 (5.82%), and Tesla was down a whopping 27.85 (10.42%)."
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #Dow #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction #PutinsPoodle
/23
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-105-4425
"Since the re-installment of Russian Asset Trump, the US stock market has seen nearly ten trillion in value disappear, with five trillion erased over the past two days. According to multiple reports, this is the largest two-day loss in American history."
~ Heidi Siegmund Cuda
#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #Dow #economy #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction #PutinsPoodle
/22
"The only legible purpose of the tariffs is for Trump to arrogate more power to himself: so that nations and corporate leaders and labor unions come begging him for relief, and so that he can shake them down."
~ Brian Beutler
#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying #stupidity #incompetence #Putin #PutinsPoodle
/5
"Callers to my radio show—as well as when I posed this question [of why Trump is crashing the economy] online—overwhelmingly responded that Trump is doing this because he is a 'Russian asset.' His goal is to 'Make Russia Great Again' at the expense of the United States."
#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #economy #crash #SmootHawley #recession #inflation #stupidity #incompetence #destruction #Putin #PutinsPoodle
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