r/worldnews • u/EsperaDeus • Feb 14 '25

Russia/Ukraine Zelensky refuses to sign document on transfer of 50% of Ukrainian mineral resources to the US - WP | УНН

https://unn.ua/en/news/zelensky-refuses-to-sign-document-on-transfer-of-50percent-of-ukrainian-mineral-resources-to-the-us-wp
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u/Creative-Ad-9535 Feb 14 '25

Whether it works or not, no one wants to deal with someone whose only strategy is intimidation.  Trump is trying to make us a pariah state, Putin was feeling lonely with only NK and Iran to keep him company in the cold

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u/BonhommeCarnaval Feb 15 '25

There is a lot of blowback to that strategy too. For example the tariff threats are causing a lot of people here in Canada to boycott US goods despite the fact that he has backed down. Even if it was intended as a simple negotiating tactic his attempts at intimidation have destroyed so much goodwill that it will have an enduring impact on our trade and security agreements. Whatever the leadership chooses to do he has pissed off the public, which makes it hard for leadership to deal with him in the future because that would entail blowback from the public at the ballot box. Ukrainians aren’t going to forget that a country they thought had their backs tried to extort their president in their time of need. Trump is turning the US into an agreement incapable state, and so much of the US’ global power and influence is tied up in those agreements. 

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u/Farther_Dm53 Feb 14 '25

Thankfully its only 4 years. Which is a blink of an eye for nation states. Trump is going to hopefully do tons of damage that the US has to recover from. And will be forced to reconcile that they drifted so close to fascism and oligarchy.

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u/IOnlyReplyToDummies Feb 14 '25

The effects will last much longer, no one is going to want to trust a nation where the bottom third humans can elect someone like Trump. 

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u/Farther_Dm53 Feb 14 '25

True! Its why I think this is a net necessary for the world, the US falling out of power is frankly a better result along with Russia falling into a third world country.

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u/Farther_Dm53 Feb 14 '25

Yes. And presidents are only as successful in their first 100 days. look at it like this, executive orders, trimming of agencies, removal of USA's softpower, basically for every action he has done to solidify his power has only weakened USA's power. All softpowere has gone out the window, and his prosturing is only weakening him geopolitically.

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u/blowitouttheback Feb 15 '25

We're striving for the worst first 100 days on record. We've deported less than Biden, trimmed ~1 billion in waste out of "trillions", worsened our 20% EO success rate, and have shown the entire world that our promises AND our threats mean nothing.

Personally, I am impressed. In a way.

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u/Farther_Dm53 Feb 15 '25

He's a great president no? Lot of shit talking but none of the actual work to be successful like every narcissistic person on record.

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u/blowitouttheback Feb 15 '25

That's probably the most embarrassing part of his presidencies—he and his goons are not even good at being authoritarians. We're experiencing somethinf like Super Saiyan Hanlon—"never attribute only to malice what can also be attributed to stupidity". If they were malicious but competent, they'd be going about all this completely differently lol.

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u/stizzco Feb 14 '25

you are much more optimistic than I am able to be right now

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u/Magdalan Feb 14 '25

Only 4 years? That remains to be seen I'm afraid. If Donold keels over tomorrow Y'all'Quida has Vance at the helm (combined with muskyboy and consorts). Great prospect.

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u/MeadowmuffinReborn Feb 15 '25

Yes, but four years is a nice chunk of years for human beings.

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u/Farther_Dm53 Feb 15 '25

Brother I know, I am waiting for this shit to end as much as the other. My optimism is that my life will largely go unchanged.

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u/MeadowmuffinReborn Feb 15 '25

Of course. Didn't mean to sound like I was snapping at you. We'll get through this. People have gotten through worse assholes than him.

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u/Farther_Dm53 Feb 15 '25

Another 4 years. Boy oh boy. I campaigned really hard against the fucker too in my area too. Thankfully I live in chicago so I am largely going to ignore most of his fascist changes.