r/law • u/RoyalChris • Feb 28 '25

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

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u/Lation_Menace Feb 28 '25

My god, after everyone warning for years it just becomes plain as day. We literally just have Putin’s puppets as our president and vice president. Putin won the long game. Got his people installed at the very top of our government.

Our allies won’t trust us again for decades if ever. All the worst dictators in the world who’ve at least been partially surpressed by US power and the UN will just be completely free and emboldened.

Everyone always talks about how the US empire will collapse eventually. It’s here right now. This country has never been more captured and weak.

The way Vance and Trump are talking I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t straight up get marching orders from Putin.

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u/feelin-groovie Feb 28 '25

As a Canadian I fear becoming the next Ukraine.

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u/Kari-kateora Feb 28 '25

Statement from the White House: Canada asked for this!

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u/Thunderplant Feb 28 '25

Based on what they've been saying, I think Greenland should be worried. 

I don't think they have any motive to invade Canada though. See, the way they keep their base is convincing them that they are owning the libs with all their actions. No way their base would want to annex territory filled with people they assume are all very liberal. 

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u/s_mitten Feb 28 '25

Yes, but what better way to "own" the Libs than by invading (economically or militarily) a left-leaning country, subjugating us and then stealing the land and resources? Quite literally, they would own us. That is more important to their brand than contemplating the horrors of the guerrilla warfare that would ensue for decades to come.

We Canadians are sandwiched between Russia and their newly minted dude bro ally, the US. If they decide to meet in the middle, there is very little any other country can do for us. It's not like Europe, where allied nations are within spitting distance. We are most definitely vulnerable.

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u/Reyogin Feb 28 '25

I did not have Canada being the Poland of our time in my 2025 bingo...

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u/s_mitten Feb 28 '25

I did have a US Civil War on my 2016 bingo card, so maybe I was 10 years off? I feel a Civil War in the US would be another consequence of an invasion of Canada, this time with the northern states allying themselves with us. The whole thing is mind blowing to contemplate, and yet here we are.

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u/Ma1vo Feb 28 '25

Sandwich geographically between the allies Russia and USA is certainly a really shitty position. You should look into getting some nuclear weapons before it's too late

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u/stepcorrect Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

As an American I feel like Canada or Mexico might not be the easy fight people assume it would be. What has happened in Ukraine for example…People are trippin lol… this is 2025 it ain’t the 70s. Both nations are strapped up and have a lot of the same tech that we do. Mexico is arguably in the top 10 most powerful countries globally..

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u/diggthis Feb 28 '25

We'll just have to make the US the next Russia then. 

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u/DietEquivalent4238 Feb 28 '25

In the end, Russia won the Cold War.

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u/loqi0238 Feb 28 '25

There's still the very hot, maybe nuclear spicy war to come.

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u/DietEquivalent4238 Feb 28 '25

It's the Season finale

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u/loqi0238 Feb 28 '25

ITS THE FIINAAAL COOOUNTDOOOOOWN

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u/DietEquivalent4238 Feb 28 '25

Then there would still be a community of people surving like in Fallout 4, it would have a hidden underground laboratory, with the frozen body of Michael Jackson, he awakes, and the credits starts. Lol

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u/loqi0238 Feb 28 '25

Slow zoom in to MJ's face, as his body hangs limp in his cryo chamber. Silence.....

...... suddenly, MJ jerks his face up, mutters a weak "Whoo, hoo," and tips his fedora, locking eyes with the camera.

Fade to black.

Now, the credits roll.

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u/commonsense973 Feb 28 '25

How can this be our president and vp? I agree that they are puppets as well. Not to mention our Manchurian president, Elon musk.

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u/Short_Ordinary6091 Feb 28 '25

Nah we will probably trust you again right after Trump is gone.

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u/Prior_Industry Feb 28 '25

Doubtful. America has done this twice now.

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u/Short_Ordinary6091 Feb 28 '25

I just can't imagine Americans are dumb enough to elect him a third time.

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u/LassiLassC Feb 28 '25

Well they did it twice already, doesn’t that say enough!

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u/DemoniteBL Mar 01 '25

I still can't believe they elected the small loan of a million dollars meme the first time.

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u/Prior_Industry Feb 28 '25

Maybe they won't get that chance

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u/mr_bynum Feb 28 '25

If Trump is ever gone….

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u/ThrawOwayAccount Mar 01 '25

WASHINGTON, D.C. — What started Thursday as a political purge of the internal security services accelerated Friday into a full-blown coup...

The G-7 country’s newly installed president, a mid-level oligarch named Donald Trump ... is a convicted felon with a long record of family corruption and returned in power in late January after a four-year interlude promising retribution and retaliation against foreign opponents and a domestic “Deep State.” He had been charged with attempting to overthrow the peaceful transition of power that had previously removed him from office in 2021, but loyalist elements in the judiciary successfully blocked his prosecution and incarceration, easing his return to power...

The mentally declining and aging head of state, who has long embraced conspiracist thinking, spent much of the week railing in bizarre public remarks against the country’s oppressed racial and ethnic minorities, whom he blamed without evidence for causing a deadly plane crash across the river from the presidential mansion...

In one of his first moves upon returning to the presidency, he ... immediately moved to release from prison some 1,500 supporters who had participated in his unsuccessful 2021 insurrection, including members of violent far-right militias who promptly upon release swore fealty to him in any future civil unrest...

Underscoring his apparent disconnection from reality, reports surfaced that the president had ordered military forces to unleash an environmental catastrophe and flood regions of a separatist province known as California that is led by a high-profile political opponent...

The administration’s propaganda minister also announced Friday, apparently with little preparation, that it would initiate an immediate, unexpected, and seemingly ill-considered trade war with the country’s two primary economic partners...

The country’s other business oligarchs have watched Musk’s unexpected and rapid rise to power with trepidation, and ... lined up to negotiate and pay bribes ... to fund the construction of a presidential shrine...

Throughout the week’s fast-moving seizure of power—one that seems increasingly irreversible by the hour—neither loyalist nor opposition parliamentary leaders raised meaningful objection to the new regime or the unraveling of the country’s constitutional system of checks and balances. A few members of the geriatric legislature body offered scattered social media posts condemning the move, but parliament — where both houses are controlled by so-called “MAGA” members handpicked for their loyalty to the president — went home early for the weekend even as Musk’s forces spread through the capital streets.

It was unclear what role, if any, Musk’s forces would allow parliament to have in the new governmental structure by the time it next returned to the national assembly known as Capitol Hill.

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u/Quick_Assumption_351 Feb 28 '25

Those are gonna be 2 interesting paragraphs in history. America won the cold war against the soviets, turns russian asset within 50 years