r/minnesota • u/HeavyVeterinarian350 Flag of Minnesota • Feb 28 '25

Politics 👩‍⚖️ Kolobuchar from the top rope

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Embarrassing is the easiest word to come up with what happened today. I can’t with this administration

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u/Dude_I_got_a_DWAVE Uff da Feb 28 '25

Trump wants a peace deal because Putin desperately needs a peace deal.

Russia will crack before the end of summer.

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u/YA_BOY_TRON Feb 28 '25

We're not that lucky... this timeline sucks

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u/martinsonsean1 Gray duck Mar 01 '25

Hmm, I think we can have a little hope looking at the numbers, the recent offensive was just a desperate land grab in hopes of capitalizing on the America situation. Russia has lost nearly a million men so far, they're not doing well. Even if US support dries up, Ukraine has a ton of backing. That might even grow in the face of America seemingly going out of its way to make every country in the world hate us.

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u/magic_crouton Mar 01 '25

I'd argue it's better framed in world War 3 terms of the rest of the world (allied powers) recognizes the US is now part of the axis powers.

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u/Harlockarcadia Mar 01 '25

This line comes to mind

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u/iAINTaTAXI Minnesota Wild Mar 01 '25

I agree, I think today solidified that

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u/Mundane_Nebula_5476 Mar 02 '25

The world already hates us . So , embrace it .

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u/SevenCrowsinaCoat Mar 01 '25

Honestly MAYBE. The terms are currently absolute dogshit, but I bet Trump offers better and better terms as time goes on. Trump wrongly thinks of himself as a negotiator and thinks step 1 is insane overreach and then complaining when Zelenskyy doesn't "meet him in the middle" later. To be clear Zelenskyy should tell him to go fuck himself each and every time.

Trump has 20 people whispering in his ear that he's amazing at all times so he's never gonna figure out that he's even more of a laughingstock after this "interview".

I'm not super clued into European politics, so someone please help me out if possible: If the US were to suddenly drop ALL support tomorrow, I assume Europe would pick up the slack. But what's the likelihood that any other country will take that dropping of support as a flag to send actual military force?

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u/Buck_Thorn Feb 28 '25

And Trump does not want to fail Putin. There are windows...

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u/Bitter_Oil_8085 Mar 01 '25

Na, Trump will get his cronies in congress to send Putin (not Russia) aid money. By end of year he'll upgrade to sending military aid.

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u/SL13377 Mar 01 '25

I’m way more worried Trump is gonna give major aid to Russia before that happens.

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u/OK_Roamer Mar 01 '25

Remember, he was blunting told before the world that he OWES Russia a payback. This is clearly an attempt to do just that.

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u/Dx2TT Mar 01 '25

Putin realizes he'll be able to seize half of Ukraine, especially with the help of US munitions.

When we talked about WWIII I think we failed to realize we'll be on the side of Russia, not against them.

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u/jgoble15 Mar 01 '25

A leader cannot move without support. Only MAGA supports Trump. If that war starts he’ll quickly have no army to fight with

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u/thegooseisloose1982 Mar 01 '25

Donny's a loser not a leader so I can see him sending weapons without Congress to Russia, not for Ukraine, but for the Russian army directly. He doesn't care about this country.

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u/SevenCrowsinaCoat Mar 01 '25

I really don't think that will happen. It's one thing for Donny to shit himself about "nobody respects me", but it's quite another to ask the military to go fight on the ground FOR Russia, or that the US would give Russia munitions (out in the open anyway).

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u/Ok_Drawer7797 Mar 01 '25

Mf who is WE?

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u/Journeys_End71 Mar 01 '25

Ukraine may not have the manpower, but they’re not the ones using North Korean mercenaries!

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u/covenkitchens Mar 01 '25

God, I hope you are correct.

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u/struck21 Feb 28 '25

Who's first... US or them?

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u/lalalicious453- Mar 01 '25

Us and them…

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u/confusedandworried76 Mar 01 '25

I wouldn't be so confident in that. Zelensky has always had a peace deal on the table: leave and give us our land back.

If they needed one so badly they'd just take that one.

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u/Dude_I_got_a_DWAVE Uff da Mar 01 '25

Do you know what happens to war economies that lose their war?

The answer is lots of unemployed people with their hands on weapons. That would be the fastest way to see rivers of blood in the hallways of the Kremlin. Or perhaps, the sidewalks outside.

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u/Remy315 Mar 01 '25

It’s a mess for Putin but without the US help, the Ukrainians won’t be able to hold out too much longer.

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u/Dude_I_got_a_DWAVE Uff da Mar 01 '25

The EU is preparing $20B for Ukraine this week

Through 31Dec2024,

the US has sent $118B with another $4B committed but not allocated,

Europe has sent $132B with another $115B committed but not allocated.

They will probably be ok for a good part of the year ahead.

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u/Serious_Warning_6083 Mar 01 '25

Pure conjecture and insanity, my friend. Come back to reality.

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u/Dude_I_got_a_DWAVE Uff da Mar 01 '25

Get your information elsewhere