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The UK with some “classy” diplomacy

Sir Keir Starmer has told Volodymyr Zelensky he has "full backing across the United Kingdom" as the two met in Downing Street.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4k137ezlgo
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Chef Boi RD wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:17 am The UK with some “classy” diplomacy

Sir Keir Starmer has told Volodymyr Zelensky he has "full backing across the United Kingdom" as the two met in Downing Street.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg4k137ezlgo
There's a couple of posters who seem to be much more studied on the war than I am so curious to learn their thoughts, but I wonder what does the US do when seeing Ukraine striking up deals to repay Euro countries for their contributions to the war while Trump and Vance had $$$ in their pocket before the disaster in the Oval Office?

Not to mention Ukraine reaching out to China to take the place of the US?...

This UK deal reminds me of Gulf War 1 , find a way to empty your stockpiles so that you can make new and better war equipment while improving the countries GDP and the bottom line of many private and public corporations...

https://www.baesystems.com/en/what-we-do
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rikster wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:42 am

This UK deal reminds me of Gulf War 1 , find a way to empty your stockpiles so that you can make new and better war equipment while improving the countries GDP and the bottom line of many private and public corporations...

https://www.baesystems.com/en/what-we-do
That is one thing Trump is not talking about, the millions or billions of dollars American companies made creating new weapons and replenishing stockpiles. Surprised he hasn’t had some calls to back down from certain families/companies because war is big business.
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2Fingers wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:59 am
rikster wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:42 am

This UK deal reminds me of Gulf War 1 , find a way to empty your stockpiles so that you can make new and better war equipment while improving the countries GDP and the bottom line of many private and public corporations...

https://www.baesystems.com/en/what-we-do
That is one thing Trump is not talking about, the millions or billions of dollars American companies made creating new weapons and replenishing stockpiles. Surprised he hasn’t had some calls to back down from certain families/companies because war is big business.
The Military Industrial Complex?

Should we link ex-general (and only General elected to president) - Eisenhower’s farewell address to the nation in regards to that? Probably not, we are all pretty familiar with it.
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Interesting that Russia no longer is a threat.
The cybersecurity outlet The Record originally reported that under Trump’s new Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, U.S. Cyber Command has been ordered to “stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.” The outlet cites three anonymous sources who are familiar with the matter. The order reportedly does not apply to the National Security Agency.
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Per wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 3:41 am
Strangelove wrote: Sat Mar 01, 2025 7:23 pm
A Trump-led free world is just what the doctor ordered.
Well, clearly he isn’t interested in leading the free world. He wants to be a dick-tater and leader of a subjugated world.
Which is probably why he is treating traditional US allies as the enemy and cozying up to Putin.

In a matter of weeks Trump has managed to destroy a lot of the goodwill America has built over 200 years.

Threatening to annex Greenland, the Panama Canal and Canada.
Voting against the UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion.
Starting trade wars with Canada, Mexico and the EU.
Negotiating with Putin about the future of Europe without Ukraine or the EU being present.
The bullying of Zelensky in the Oval office in front of rolling cameras.

The rest of the free world has gotten the memo and are now starting to distance themselves from him.
Big picture Per... try to see the big picture.

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rikster wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 9:42 am
There's a couple of posters who seem to be much more studied on the war than I am so curious to learn their thoughts, but I wonder what does the US do when seeing Ukraine striking up deals to repay Euro countries for their contributions to the war while Trump and Vance had $$$ in their pocket before the disaster in the Oval Office?

Not to mention Ukraine reaching out to China to take the place of the US?...

This UK deal reminds me of Gulf War 1 , find a way to empty your stockpiles so that you can make new and better war equipment while improving the countries GDP and the bottom line of many private and public corporations...

https://www.baesystems.com/en/what-we-do
There are some loans that have been made available to Ukraine, but that’s a minor part. Almost all the money and weapons they receive from Europe is gifted. No strings attached. It can also be mentioned that Europe has provided about 50% more than the US in total aid. When it comes to weapons, they have given more or less the same as the USA. We don’t see it as something that should be paid back. We are investing in a free and safe Europe, which Ukraine is and should be a part of. If Putin isn't stopped in Ukraine, we will soon have to fight him in Sweden. Denmark has sent them all their artillery. Howitzers, ammunition, everything. Now, Denmark is a small country, but still. And they can probably be protected by Swedish and German artillery, should the Russians come.

Also, please note there are no bags of money going there. At least 80 percent of what the USA has given to Ukraine has been paid to American companies, who deliver weapon systems to Ukraine, and in doing so employ American workers. The Ukrainian government is cash strapped, but the EU has stepped in to help pay the salaries for piblic servants and pensions to the retired. European aid is roughly half military, half financial and humanitarian. The US aid is almost completely military aid. Which is good, because we don’t not have the same stockpiles in Europe, so we have a hard time delivering what Ukraine needs while simultaneously strengthening our own defence.
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Strangelove wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 1:41 pm Big picture Per... try to see the big picture.
4D Chess.
Keep dreaming Doc, I'm guessing the anarchist in you is enjoying the internal destruction of traditional American policies and systems?

If your hero can actually stop the war and not totally fuck over Ukraine, then that will be an accomplishment.
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Strangelove wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 1:41 pm
Per wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 3:41 am
Strangelove wrote: Sat Mar 01, 2025 7:23 pm
A Trump-led free world is just what the doctor ordered.
Well, clearly he isn’t interested in leading the free world. He wants to be a dick-tater and leader of a subjugated world.
Which is probably why he is treating traditional US allies as the enemy and cozying up to Putin.

In a matter of weeks Trump has managed to destroy a lot of the goodwill America has built over 200 years.

Threatening to annex Greenland, the Panama Canal and Canada.
Voting against the UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion.
Starting trade wars with Canada, Mexico and the EU.
Negotiating with Putin about the future of Europe without Ukraine or the EU being present.
The bullying of Zelensky in the Oval office in front of rolling cameras.

The rest of the free world has gotten the memo and are now starting to distance themselves from him.
Big picture Per... try to see the big picture.

4D Chess.
Yeah, I get it. Putin is doing a great job at 4D chess, having his Manchurian candidate tearing up the transatlantic alliance.
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^ LOL @ Per and his TDS...
Cornuck wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 2:22 pm If your hero can actually stop the war and not totally fuck over Ukraine, then that will be an accomplishment.
That's exactly what will happen.
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RFKjr finally comes out about the measles outbreak.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. advocated for the MMR vaccine on Sunday in response to a growing measles outbreak in Texas.
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I had measles in 86. 15 years old. What a mother fucker in grade 10. I got chicken pox at 26: These viruses are far more dangerous than Covid.

Perhaps bleach would cure the issues.


''Just drink bleach",should have filled in the odd mongo that maybe he cant run a country.
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Blob Mckenzie wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 6:23 pm Perhaps bleach would cure the issues.


''Just drink bleach",should have filled in the odd mongo that maybe he cant run a country.
Is that you Joe?

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2 ... ronavirus/

Yeah, please stop with the bullshit.

Blob Mckenzie wrote: Fri Feb 28, 2025 4:14 am He's a 5 time draft dodger. Five times he showed a lack of backbone and a lack of courage. He's a fucking coward. River of piss running down his leg thinking of a physical confrontation. The US elected him to run their country.

Those colors do run.

He'd have flames on his feet running out of the Towers on 9/11.
Did Lord Trump have "a river of piss running down his leg" when he was shot at?

... or was he so brave under fire that it pretty much won him the election.

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Bill on Syria and Putin, with parallels to Ukraine

https://x.com/piersmorgan/status/1896268174297121053
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Store their bitcoin in Fort Knox ... what was I saying the other day?

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