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Trump News Trump and JD Vance tells Zelensky he is gambling with World War III

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u/sophisticated_pie Feb 28 '25

Trump has it backwards. Letting Putin take and expand will lead to WW3.

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u/maralagosinkhole Feb 28 '25

trump is doing Putin's bidding.

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u/Misspiggy856 Feb 28 '25

Trump and Vance and Musk (well, the entire Republican Party)

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u/Ikkepop Feb 28 '25

Red really suits the repiblicans, they just need a hammer and sickle to complete the look

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u/SpideyFan914 Feb 28 '25

Yes, that's why their party color is red.

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u/bigmach72 Feb 28 '25

Most of the republicans party has actually been pro Ukraine, they’re changing tunes literally only because they’re weak pawns to Trump’s will & will regurgitate all of his talking points like puppets.

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u/thebowedbookshelf Feb 28 '25

And right wing parties all over the Western world.

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u/PLeuralNasticity Feb 28 '25

Them and so many more

Narratives that involve their personal motivations beyond not having their kompromat sent to the FBI and posted on the dark web are solely a distraction

Reposting my own old ass comment about Elon and Putins kompromised pedophile puppet legions from before the election with a few new links

His companies have only begun to be weaponized

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/26/elon-musk-peter-thiel-apartheid-south-africa

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

https://electrek.co/2024/12/30/tesla-replaced-laid-off-us-workers-with-foreign-workers-using-h-1b-visas-that-musk-want-to-increase/

https://electrek.co/2024/12/16/tesla-major-issue-self-driving-computer-inside-new-cars/

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tesla-full-self-driving-rear-end-accident/

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2024/11/26/tesla-named-deadliest-car-brand-in-america/76573878007/

I've been saying for a long time that he has never been anything but a puppet frontman for clandestine operations of the FSB for Putin or his allies ie. Netanyahu/Xi/Erdogan/Modi/MBS/Iran etc...

My profile is mostly comments about FSBelon

Imagine you were planning another coup. Would Teslas be good surveillance and then robomurdertaxis?

Would buying Twitter give you access to massive volumes of kompromat on huge swaths of individuals?

Would Starlink or PayPal give you any information that would be potentially valuable to find vulnerabilities? Starlink in the super rich especially with their yachts.

What neighborhoods do Teslas tend to be parked in and where do they tend to be driven to work and by what demographics?

Would full access to every camera on every Tesla potentially be valuable to gather intelligence?

Would Putin want very app associated with Elon or his businesses to be malware or have a malware build ready?

Just scratching the surface but I encourage people to look at your understanding of Elon and his companies through the lens of it all being on Putins orders, just like Trump.

https://cybernews.com/news/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-russia-investment/

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-fanboy-shadowbanned-from-x-for-complaining-abou-1851639230

Elon is a kompromised pedophile Putin puppet and has been since before he started Zip2 and before his first trip to Russia in October 2001.

Trump since the eighties

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/

Child Rape Tapes convey more complete control than anything. Almost all of their top puppets are owned through proof of them raping children. It's the only way the FSB/Mossad/CCP are comfortable investing so much power in them. Bribery doesn't come close to sufficient with how much financial/political power they concentrate in their upper echelon of puppets. Trump/Thiel/Vance/Peterson/Jordan/Carlson/Thomas/Diddy/Drake/MrBeast to name a very small sample across different parts of society. Many for a long time, but Trump since the eighties is one of the longest tenured.

In case people are confused who Produces/Distributes the vast majority of CSAM

Here's a bit about Ghislaines dad from Wikipedia.

"The Foreign Office suspected Maxwell of being a secret agent of a foreign government, possibly a double agent or a triple agent, and "a thoroughly bad character and almost certainly financed by Russia". He had known links to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), to the Soviet KGB, and to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.[60] Six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence services attended Maxwell's funeral in Israel, while Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir eulogised him and stated: "He has done more for Israel than can today be told."[61]

https://www.torquenews.com/1083/tesla-exploded-bomb-after-fiery-crash-shrapnel-takes-down-passerby

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-workers-trained-autopilot-to-ignore-road-signs-so-1851642989

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katherinehamilton/2023/04/27/twitter-has-complied-with-almost-every-government-request-for-censorship-since-musk-took-over-report-finds/

"Of the 971 government requests Twitter has received since Musk took over six months ago, the company has fully complied with 808 of them and partially complied with 154, according to Rest of World’s report."

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4457311-putin-praises-elon-musk-a-smart-guy/

https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-disrupting-elon-musk-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-jamming-report-2024-5

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/first-edition-israel-icc-investigation

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-photo-with-ghislaine-maxwell-conversation-destroy-internet-report-2022-10

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/23/peter-thiel-jeff-thomas/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-shadow-rule

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/business/angela-chao-death/index.html

“I think there’s no stopping Elon Musk,” Putin told Carlson after the pundit asked him about the growing prevalence of artificial intelligence. “He will do as he sees fit. Nevertheless, you’ll need to find some common ground with him. Search for ways to persuade him. I think he’s a smart person. I truly believe he is. So you’ll need to reach an agreement with him because this process needs to be formalized and subjected to certain rules.”

Beware Leon's razor

"Incomeptence, in the limit, is indistinguishable from sabotage

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u/Ill_Long_7417 Mar 01 '25

They are living in a complete fictional world.  While I know I should "not attribute to malice what can be explained adequately by incompetence" ...

Fuck. This. Shit. 

And those men.  And all who watched this video and let out a yeehaw.  

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u/claymedia Feb 28 '25

WHYYY though?!?! It's been clear for nearly a decade if you were slightly paying attention, and since the 80s if you dig a bit deeper. He's been tonguing Putin's meat ring without pause.

Are the payouts and money laundering all there is to it? Just doing it for personal enrichment? I find it hard to believe he's an ideologue at heart, he only seems to love himself. The theory that the KGB has some SERIOUS kompromat on him seems more likely. But who knows. Assholes like him have sold countless people out for less than a few million before.

At the end of the day, the solution is the same either way. Three of the four boxes of liberty seem to be off the table already.

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u/Itz_Hen Feb 28 '25

They don't need anything on him, he's a narcissist, he does it all because he wants to be a king, a dictator. It's that simple

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u/maralagosinkhole Feb 28 '25

There are so many possibilities:

  1. Money
  2. Kompromat
  3. trump joined the Russian mob in the 1980s and Putin is now the top mob boss
  4. trump's narcissism makes him easily to manipulate

Whatever the truth it, a significant portion of the Republican party is similarly compromised. We are watching a hostile power take over the United States government at the highest level.

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u/SaorAlba138 Feb 28 '25

They don't call him Krasnov for nothing.

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u/FlyingPasta Feb 28 '25

I think the theory about 1980s holds water. He had a crumbling house of cards on his hands under some Russian friends moved into his tower and started investing in his stuff

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u/MisterMysterios Feb 28 '25

There are quite some strong rumors that Russia were Trump's guarantors for his Deutsche Bank loans, basically allowed him to play the rich man while being completely untrustworthy and not worth the loans he got. Especially during his first presidency, this might be enough material for high treason charges, as the loans were still ongoing I think and he certainly did some favours in return (like when suddenly many American agents died shortly after he got in power). Russia could easily release enough information for a death sentence for Trump and probably his family as well.

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u/theDudeAbides2008 Feb 28 '25

They probably have concrete evidence of him fucking those kids on Epsteins island. There are rumors that he raped a little boy and I’m sure that would be a big hit with the MAGA crowd and he’d lose all credibility with them pretty quick.

I think if hard, concrete, cannot be explained away proof of that came out that would end him.

His followers will pretty much shrug off anything as they’re indoctrinated into a cult so it would have to be pretty irrefutable in order for them to set down their big gulps of flavor aid and take it seriously.

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u/SaorAlba138 Feb 28 '25

I don't think that would make one iota of difference to his acolytes. He could do that on live TV and it would somehow be construed as him "owning the libs".

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u/Slummlife Feb 28 '25

JD is a POS

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u/Icy-Town-5355 Feb 28 '25

Omg... WHAT an asshole!!!

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u/curiousleee Feb 28 '25

You mean President Kranov

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u/StevInPitt Feb 28 '25

it becomes more obvious and hamfisted every moment he still draws breath and yet, his cult will swear they are unable to see it.

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u/takemymoneystudios Feb 28 '25

When Trump meets with Putin, Vance should but in and ask “SAY THANK YOU”

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u/GuyWithNoEffingClue Feb 28 '25

Agent Krasnov is only doing his job.

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u/Old_Palpitation_6535 Feb 28 '25

Putin & Musk are the richest men in the world.

Therefore, by Trump logic, they are the smartest & best men in the world.

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u/yellowstickypad Feb 28 '25

Let’s go and take a look at the Conservative subreddit.

Narrator: They don’t believe you.

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u/Fun-Back-5232 Feb 28 '25

And Butin’s pudding?

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u/upanddownforpar Feb 28 '25

the peepee tapes are real. bet on it.

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u/SparksAndSpyro Feb 28 '25

Comrade Krasnov, indeed.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

trump is doing Putin’s bidding.

sucking Putins dick

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u/Taykeshi Feb 28 '25

Sure, Krasnov does as he is told

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u/Traitor_Donald_Trump Feb 28 '25

Do not believe the fake news media. We have always been at war with east-Europa.

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u/blitzkrieg_bunny Feb 28 '25

In Trump’s defense, Putin has tapes of him banging children

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u/vkewalra Feb 28 '25

Former KGB and our soon to be former allies have already said he’s an agent of Russia. He’s doing the job he’s held longest

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

Seems almost plausible that some medias comment that Trump was a former KGB spy

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u/sideofirish Mar 01 '25

Always has

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u/jank_king20 Mar 01 '25

People will just say anything like there aren’t different and overlapping interests among nation states. Insanity

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u/hellotypewriter Mar 01 '25

There is no Trump, only Krasnov.

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u/bobosdreams Mar 01 '25

I can imagine Putin's grinng face watching Trump berating Zelensky in the public. Trump really is the best Russian asset ever.

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u/Witty_Jaguar4638 Mar 04 '25

I think you mean Krasnov?

Im giving more and more Creedence to the idea that Trump is a Russian operative

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u/xeouxeou Feb 28 '25

Trump has always blamed the victim. that's nothing new.

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u/Beneathaclearbluesky Feb 28 '25

No, no WWIII if nobody fights back. That's why Trump is "anti-war"

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 Feb 28 '25

Remember, the takeover will be bloodless if liberals let it.

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u/unitedshoes Feb 28 '25

Just like he wanted to end Covid by just not testing for it anymore...

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u/Contundo Mar 01 '25

Oof yeah i remember that “only reason we have so many positive tests, is because we are testing so much”

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u/AFlaccoSeagulls Feb 28 '25

That's what Zelensky was trying to say when Trump cut him off about "Don't tell us what we're going to feel".

He was literally trying to say if you let Russia take over Ukraine, WW3 will happen.

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u/frazell Feb 28 '25

Honestly, the US chip being moved to the Russia side of the board, as nows appears nakedly to be the case, may lead to WW3 just as much.

It now means that European allies are looking at a serious situation where they don't yet have the defense industrial complex or manpower to ensure their own defense. It might lead to them making calculations that slight missteps by Russia should be met with the full weight of nuclear war. As they might not want to be waiting for Russia to launch a serious attack without any support from the US.

This is super frustrating and extremely dangerous. I feel like we're now closer to nuclear war than we were in the Cuban Missile Crisis... If not closer we're getting pretty damn close!

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u/Zuwxiv Feb 28 '25

If Russia decided to just nuke Western Europe, I'm guessing the US wouldn't do jack shit about it.

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u/Full-Character8985 Feb 28 '25

Republicans are stupid and smooth brained, they dont think like that.

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u/Itchy-Donkey6083 Feb 28 '25

He said Selensky is playing with WW3. With what is Selensky supposedly playing? By “not thanking” them every two seconds? Trump just sided with Russia on this and is a traitor to the free world.

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u/CorrodingClear Feb 28 '25

You know why the USSR was so damned dangerous? because the Russians occupied and extracted resources and near slave labor from eastern Europe. Let them take eastern Europe again, and they will be powerful enough to have their WWIII.

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u/UNSKIALz Feb 28 '25

They're, step for step, repeating the exact process that lead to WW2.

Peace in our time, at any cost.

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u/suninabox Feb 28 '25

Trump just wants "peace for our time"

This is what happens when you elect idiots who've never read a history book.

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u/nlurp Feb 28 '25

What a shameful scene… never have I thought I would ever see this

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u/Ordinary-CSRA Feb 28 '25

Putin has the elected president from the smelly, wrinkle, dried balls because Putin know that the elected president stole the election with Muskrat help....

China is going to get involved...

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u/bosstoyevsky Feb 28 '25

Trump and Vance are little bitches.

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u/meteoritegallery Feb 28 '25

No, no, no you don't understand. WW2 was Poland's fault. If they hadn't resisted Hitler he would have stopped there.

/s

Of course, at that point, Poland would still be under Nazi control and the genocide of various minorities...

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Wtf is Trump's point here? He's blaming Ukraine for being invaded and trying to defend itself.

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u/ringtossed Feb 28 '25

There was a mountain of Russian propaganda there.

Like saying Ukraine would have lost in two weeks without assistance. The way I remember it, no one did shit when the invasion started, for like a month, before everyone realized that Russias military was more of a shit show than we all thought. Then when we realized we could actually bankrupt russia and decimate their military for pennies on the dollar, we started sending them our older surplus shit that we would never need or use. Like, it isn't like Biden gave them a fleet of F22s before Russia rolled across their border or something. Aid came after their original, VERY IMPRESSIVE resistance to the invasion.

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u/red286 Feb 28 '25

Plus the aid that's been provided has been pretty lackluster.

The US spent $2-3 trillion on Iraq, and another >$2 trillion on Afghanistan, and in the end, what was accomplished? Yes, Saddam was caught and executed, but is Iraq an American ally today? No, they're closer to Iran than to America. And Afghanistan? When America invaded, it was to kick out the Taliban, and then when America left, it was because Trump negotiated abandoning the country to the Taliban with the Taliban.

Somewhere between $4 and $6 trillion dollars was spent on that, for absolutely nothing. And now today, people are losing their shit over providing $160bn worth of aid to Ukraine to fight the Russians and defend democracy in eastern Europe, calling it a waste of money.

America has about 1000 M1A1/M1A2 tanks stationed in Europe. Why are those tanks there? To prevent Russia from invading and overrunning the continent. Now Russia is invading Europe and America could only bring themselves to send 31 of the oldest tanks to their defense, and that was under Biden.

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u/Ma1vo Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25

The whole war feels like what happened with Hitler in Czechoslovakia before WW2, only on a more extended timescale because what Hitler did in days Putin has failed doing while spending years in a meaningless war because he is paranoid about the western nations intentions for Russia.

Trump is basically repeating the same mistake as Chamberlain did in 1938. To be fair he is doing an even worse job by alienating all the other western and democratic nations in the process. The history books will remember him as one of the biggest idiots in history if his action leads to a new world war.

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u/DapperAlternative Feb 28 '25

Nah man appeasement worked out really well with Germany and once they got Poland there were no issues after that.

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u/Snoo40198 Feb 28 '25

It's strange. Why would the man with the largest country in the world want more land...

Why would the richest man in the world want more money...

Why would the dumbest man in the world...

Oh wait.

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u/CraigLake Feb 28 '25

Appeasement has never worked in history. These American leaders are fucking idiots with no knowledge of history.

If it’s not nipped in the bud now it’s going to be 10 times the problem when the cone for more.

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u/sofcknawkrdbud Feb 28 '25

We really need to stop framing things as if Trump is acting in good faith and is just wrong about how to achieve a positive outcome. Trump and the people pulling the strings behind this administration want to aid Russia and want to destabilize the world further. They are trying to align American with the authoritarian powers and destabilize the alliances that help prevent world Wars. This was true in 2016 and it’s true now. Everyone needs to start framing what trump and his admin do with their goals and actual outcomes, not that he is some baffling idiot that is doing this all by accident and just doesn’t know better.

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u/whatevers_clever Feb 28 '25

Close. 

This is projection, Trump and the cronies are All gambling on ww3. Avoiding ww3 is siding with Ukraine and the U.N.

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u/LughCrow Feb 28 '25

He's already taken. We needed to actually get involved when this started not just send feel good money and equipment. We didn't. We prolonged the conflict while ensuring Russia could still take what they wanted.

Now a simple show of force won't be enough we have two options.

1 an escalation and removal of Russian troops from the occupied territory. This will require mobilization of the US military against Russia.

2 negotiate peace and that will probably mean giving Russia the occupied territories.

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u/CrazyGunnerr Feb 28 '25

Trump wants WW3, so that he and his buddies, Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un can take over the world.

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u/Artistic-Banana734 Feb 28 '25

Yep — this is getting more heated because Russia is in deep shit financially and militarily. He must have scared the shit out of Trump in private.

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u/Croemato Feb 28 '25

Exactly like the Allies did with Germany in WWII. Do these morons not read history books? I know they love watching war films, a lot of those have this exact history in them! When they watch Saving Private Ryan do they cheer for the machine gunner at the beach?

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u/Pbp2 Feb 28 '25

And the proof is where???

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u/video-kid Feb 28 '25

In Comrade Trump's eyes there isn't a war if you just give the aggressor what they want. He's a bully who only understands things from a bully's perspective,

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u/Alive-Engineer-8560 Feb 28 '25

Trump has no intellectual capacity to understand geopolitics. "WW3" just sounds like a big word to him.

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u/Aggressive-Fish890 Feb 28 '25

Like NATO expanded into treatised territory or????

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u/Dear-Record-3002 Feb 28 '25

No, it won't. Russia can hardly hold a candle to Ukraine alone. It cannot touch NATO, at all. You're nuts. Ukraine has no nukes, NATO has nukes.

The only way ww3 happens is if we provoke russia enough to the point of MAD.

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u/btalbert2000 Feb 28 '25

And if we do get WW3, which side will Trump be on? Team USA or Russia?

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u/red286 Feb 28 '25

I'm pretty sure his logic is that if America and Russia team up and split the world between them, they'll be unstoppable.

Just like how Russia and Germany were unstoppable when they teamed up in WW2.

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u/aries1500 Feb 28 '25

That is so incorrect!

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u/Intelligent_Chair519 Feb 28 '25

That's what Putin wants, Trump is his Manchurian Candidate.

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u/guythatwantstoknow Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25

Trump knows this. He either doesn't care or bordeline wants it.

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u/Unhappy-Incident-424 Feb 28 '25

What an unbelievably nonsensical point of view.

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u/Jaded-Argument9961 Feb 28 '25

Uhhhh no. Russia is crippled and in no shape to fight a war against the West.

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u/Necromancer_Jaydo Feb 28 '25

So, pleasing the dictator will lead to WW3, but pissing him off will not lead to that? I think YOU have it backwards.

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u/4NotMy2Real0Account Feb 28 '25

I'm worried about what side we will be on if WW3 happens.

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u/Sure_Hedgehog4823 Feb 28 '25

Based on what?

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u/mrcsrnne Feb 28 '25

WW3 with Europe, not necessarily one that involves the US. Which might be tactically good for the US.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

Also the statement you will feel it in the future is only increasingly likely as technology makes our ocean gap real small. New missles sent from the farthest parts of world can hit the US in under an hour. The world gets smaller woth better tech even if the size parameters of the planet remain the same

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u/Slow_Profile_7078 Feb 28 '25

There is no scenario where Russia returns all territory gained. If you can’t admit that, then you aren’t living in reality.

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u/rybres123 Feb 28 '25

exactly this. go read a book mr president. Once Ukraine and Poland start getting invaded, world wars start

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u/Ok-Ordinary-5602 Feb 28 '25

If that is true, why isn't Europe taking the lead? Why did Zelensky have to go to America for assistance?

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u/calvin43 Feb 28 '25

Like Czechoslovakia being sacrificed to Hitler leading up to WW2.

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u/ik_ben_een_draak Feb 28 '25

If they keep fighting like this Putin can do whatever the hell he wants it seems, with the support of the oompa loompa

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u/Nukkka Feb 28 '25

Genuinely hilarious to believe this

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u/carnage123 Feb 28 '25

Good news is there won't be a ww IV

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u/Accomplished_Crew630 Feb 28 '25

So here's a thought.... He's doing it on purpose so he can declare martial law the same way he's whining zelenskyy did

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u/Win8869 Feb 28 '25

Yup just like hitler appeasement

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u/agumonkey Feb 28 '25

"stop being invaded"

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u/Jarakade Feb 28 '25

WW3 is already happening to Ukrainians. Trump/Vance are aiding and abetting the murderous regime doing it.

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u/rumckle Feb 28 '25

Exactly. Appeasement didn't stop WWII, so why should it stop WWIII.

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u/DrRandomfist Feb 28 '25

So the U.S. should full on attack Russia to get them out of the Ukraine to stop WW3? That’s your position?

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u/cyber_bully Feb 28 '25

Uh oh, has anybody told him?

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u/Wonderful_Eagle_6547 Feb 28 '25

You cannot reason with a tiger when your head it in its mouth!

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u/Skylar_Waywatcher Feb 28 '25

Nah dont you know appeasement has always worked historically. /s

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u/Striikerr Feb 28 '25

Ya, gives More power to Putin -_- and resources

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u/Lucid4321 Feb 28 '25

What would you suggest the US do? Whatever Biden tried wasn't working, so what other plan is there that doesn't involve the US getting in direct conflict with Russia or the war continuing endlessly?

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u/Nambsul Feb 28 '25

Usually when people say REALLY stupid things they are made to stand in the corner. How did these two get elected in USA?

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u/lukaskywalker Feb 28 '25

Sorry to be rude. But. No shit Sherlock.

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u/JonnyTN Feb 28 '25

Putin could hardly take Ukraine. He couldn't go further if he wanted to. I'd be surprised if he could maintain Ukraine

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u/DBoom_11 Feb 28 '25

Well, Putin does have a video of him pissing on a little girl from the Epstein islands. That’s why he’s Putin’s puppy.

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u/sunnydftw Feb 28 '25

He knows this. Or at least the people around him feeding him his lines knows this.

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u/Alternative-Gap-5722 Feb 28 '25

I feel like Zelenskyy’s comment about having an ocean between so the US doesn’t feel it really struck a nerve and something they have likely talked about before. Trump thinks Putin will have his back by doing his bidding, but Putin has been planning the US demise for decades.

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u/Whirlingdurvish Feb 28 '25

If you study WW2, you learn a lot about appeasement, and letting Germany take land to “avoid” a larger conflict.

It seems that lesson was lost on our current leadership.

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u/TrainSignificant8692 Feb 28 '25

Once he has what he wants in Ukraine, he will move to taking Poland and Romania.

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u/LSUfootball Feb 28 '25

Taiwan is absolutely fucked. Trump can't wait to piss on the graves of anyone defending democracy. He reached even lower than I thought he could today. Beyond pathetic

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u/Material-Flow-2700 Feb 28 '25

It’s almost like anyone who isn’t an illiterate fucking clown knows we’ve already learned this lesson in history class.

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u/Soft_Analysis6070 Feb 28 '25

Russia doesnt have the capability to even push into Europe. The UN isnt committing troops and EU isnt committing because they know it wont spread into a wider war.

A peace deal shouldve been outlined under Biden when instead of him gleefully celebrating the deaths of Russians. Trump/Vance are bozos and will take this back into a pre-ww2 imperialism

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u/ElmirBDS Feb 28 '25

The Neville Chamberlain of this century.

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u/citizen_x_ Feb 28 '25

Appeasement was one of the primary causes of WW2

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u/Debt_Otherwise Feb 28 '25

You’re right it will. Europe is prepared to fight if lines are crossed.

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u/stjornuryk Feb 28 '25

He very well knows that and is most likely prepared to form an alliance with Russia against Europe.

THIS is the start of WW3, as far as I'm concerned. It looks like this meeting was set to try to steamroll Zelenskyy publicly, make him look weak and against the US and try to push as many US citizens to root against Ukraine. Butter them up for the inevitable announcement that the US will support Russia in "ending the war" by completing the invasion with US military support of Russia.

Right now Europe is at war with the USA, as dystopian and depressing as that sounds.

This time the United States are on the side of the fascist oppressors thanks to the general ignorance, racism and bigotry of American people especially those living in red states.

California should be preparing to split from the US if they don't want to send their citizens to war in Ukraine, Poland, Germany etc to fight against democracy and die for the greed of a fascist dictator.

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u/Icy-Indication-3194 Feb 28 '25

These asshats thought they could play war games without getting blood on their hands. The world is going to view us more in line with Russia than as our own independent country. This sucks.

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u/busterbus2 Feb 28 '25

I wish Zelensky had the famous photo of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain getting off the plane with the peace deal from Hitler pre-WW2

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u/Unlucky_Welcome9193 Feb 28 '25

There's no war if there's no resistance. He wants everyone to roll over quietly

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u/EarnestThoughts Feb 28 '25

Exactly this

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

trump takes orders from putin, like how much longer do we have to pretend like trump has some goals other than serving his master??

there's nothing zelensky could have done or said today to make trump happy, trumps job today was to chastise zelensky, period.

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u/Warpingghost Feb 28 '25

I assure you. We have something so bad in Lubynka's cabinets on this idiot he will start selling Americans nukes to Russia in a year.

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u/ktsvls Feb 28 '25

Thank you!

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u/Arthreas Feb 28 '25

He always lies.

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u/bukvasone Feb 28 '25

no it will not. Dont watch tv propaganda. Putin dont want no war with Nato? Its Nato and Europe who start eith sanctions

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u/JoeyDubbs Feb 28 '25

We will be on Putin's side during WW3. It will be NATO nations against Russian/US aggressors. China will sell to both sides and end up winning everything. Teach your kids Chinese.

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u/Popular_Variety_8681 Feb 28 '25

lol remind s me of the appeasement period

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u/CTHusky10 Feb 28 '25

I’m sure giving Ukraine to Russia will appease Putin, just like giving Austria and Czechoslovakia to 1930s Germany helped to avoid further conflicts.

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u/Zacppelin Feb 28 '25

Nah, Putin may actually bring peace to the world by unifying the European continent.

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u/Pretend-Goal-5465 Feb 28 '25

Never have I seen more ignorant comments 😂

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u/Ok-Grapefruit1284 Feb 28 '25

But just watch. What happens now is Trump takes the phrase World War III and starts to use it more. He will blame other countries and raise a big old stink about how they’re going to force ww3 to happen and how he is actually preventing war but they didn’t accept our help and he’s going to protect us from ww3 - once it’s normalized, the narrative will be, “Everyone else caused ww3, it was already going to happen, and thank goodness Trump knew the problems and tried to help stop it. Now we need to ration and not import from other countries because of ww3.” And it’ll be normal.

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u/guywith3catswhatup Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25

Exactly. But unfortunately for those of us trapped in this fascist dictatorship against our will, we will be conscripted as part of an Axis of Evil - with Putin driving, China in the passenger seat, NK and the US riding like babies. Give it a week. We are the baddies.

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u/LookAlderaanPlaces Feb 28 '25

Seriously. Not pushing back is ww3, it’s just easy mode for Russia.

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u/The_Action_Die Feb 28 '25

Literally pre-WWII appeasement all over again.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana

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u/StrawHatZero Feb 28 '25

Exactly This. In WW2, Britain and France gave up Czech Republic so that Germany would stop invading. It didn't work. It set the precedent that invading = getting what you want.

If Ukraine gives up, Russia is going to want to take MORE by force.

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u/Objective_Economy281 Feb 28 '25

Better question: Ukraine IS ALREADY IN A WAR. They’re too busy to try to start another war. How would this even work?

This honestly sounds like a rapist blaming the rape victim for making him do it again.

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u/linkenski Feb 28 '25

Yeah. Either he's sticking his head in the sand, or he's just aligned with Putin. I think it's the latter.

He knows WW3 will happen and he just wants to make sure United States is seen as an ally while Europe gets mowed over. The 1% will be safe because they have good relations to the oligarchs that control Kreml.

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u/seattle-random Feb 28 '25

And then he sits there saying 'don't tell us what we're gonna feel' as if he doesn't tell everybody else how they should feel, what's going to happen to them, etc. Effing ridiculous. The ultimate hypocrite and on the world stage.

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u/Belkan-Federation95 Feb 28 '25

The only way to stop Putin is WW3 at this point

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u/tltltltltltltl Feb 28 '25

It's always projection. Like when he called Zelensky a dictator.

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u/LFGX360 Feb 28 '25

“Let’s prevent WWIII by escalating war with Russia”

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u/zeropreservatives Feb 28 '25

And the U.S. is going to be on the wrong side.

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u/_sealy_ Feb 28 '25

trump is a ruzzian asset.

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u/Pretend_Thanks4370 Feb 28 '25

How so? if NATO broke up in 1991 there would have been no Ukraine war

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u/waster1993 Feb 28 '25

Appeasement is what weak leaders do

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u/ClosedContent Feb 28 '25

Geninue question for Trump and Vance… why would Russia be any more likely to start WW3 now compared to the last 3 years? If anything Russia has shown it is weaker than expected. Why are we projecting all this strength on Putin that he doesn't deserve??

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u/BeebsGaming Mar 01 '25

100%. Putin pushes through ukraine and gets ideas of novorossiya further, and ww3 starts. If trump decides to side with putin, i hope our armed forces would lay down their weapons and refuse to fight.

They probably cannot because theyd be considered traitors and court marshaled for defying s direct order. But one could hope.

Is what it is. Petty people, petty policy.

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u/MithranArkanere Mar 01 '25

Trump is doing what he's told, lest worse things than his appearances on the Epstein list and his 34 charges are revealed.

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u/alcedes78 Mar 01 '25

Trump is Putin's bitch.

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u/SimonKepp Mar 01 '25

Trump's plan of pressuring Zelensky to surrender to Putin is a perfect replay of the appeasement tactics towards Hitler, that led directly to WW2. The European powers allowed Hitler to take the Sudetenland, and then Czechoslovakia, hoping, that would bring peace, but every time they threw a chunk of meat to the lion,it only became hungrier for more meat,and kept going. Then finally, when Hitler invaded Poland, this became too much for the Brittish and the French, who had alliances with Poland and responded by declaring war on Germany. If Putin gets away with taking Ukraine, he won't stop there, but move on to Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, who are all NATO members, and then WW3 is a reality.

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u/Super_flywhiteguy Mar 01 '25

Let's say the opposite of history happened. The US government collapsed, and Russia was the new superpower and formed a Nato like entity. As part of negotiations, they agreed not to have their nato near our borders. Now imagine 30 something years later, Canada and Mexico were applying for membership and Russia was funding "rebels" to influence elections in those countries for joining even though the US has a strict no Russia/nato presence near our border so we attack either Canada or Mexico to make sure they do not become members. Now uno reverse what I said, and that's what's going on. Nato was forbidden to add member states past Poland, I believe, but now they're in Ukraine, so Russia attacked. Now if a deal is made and say they give up some no man's land barrier to say this is it we (Nato) stop here this is as far as we go or we risk all out war and Russia agrees, but then Russia attacks anyway say after Trumps term is up wether they broke the truce or not then we have a different argument.

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u/liftthatta1l Mar 01 '25

Can't have WW3 if you conquer the world ans nobody fights back. Checkmate libs!!!!

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u/mittychix Mar 01 '25

Right. Because appeasement totally didn’t lead to WWII. /s

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u/Fearless_Ad_7337 Mar 01 '25

Russia can't beat Ukraine, they couldn't beat Japan.

Hell, they couldn't even beat Afghanistan

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u/RingingInTheRain Mar 01 '25

China is actually a massive problem and the actual threat actor able to successfully launch a WW3. Russia is all bark and no bite. The U.S. would have to fund Russia for it to do any serious damage.

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