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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Donald Trump of living in a "Russian-made disinformation space" due to his administration's talks with Kremlin officials.

He urged Trump's team to be "more truthful" after Trump blamed Kyiv for the war and downplayed U.S. aid contributions.

Zelenskyy’s remarks came as U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg visited Kyiv amid shifting U.S. policy on Russia. Meanwhile, European leaders, feeling sidelined by U.S.-Russia talks, held emergency meetings.

Zelenskyy canceled a Saudi Arabia trip in protest.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Trump is a russian marionette

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not just Russia's puppet. He'll let literally anyone stick their hand up his ass if they pay him.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Very handy that he has his own $Trump coin. Not a word of protest from conservatives.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Conservatives are fundamentally against financial risks, and the crypto industry is financially risky. The crypto industry has been liberal/blue from the start and still is. Conservatives aren’t talking about it because the average crypto holder is not a republican. I can tell you’re the type to say things like ‘it’s the republicans fault’ that Biden approved $400 off armored teslas.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Idk what you're smoking to think conservatives are against financial risk, given conservative governments reliably fuck up the economy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're against financial risk - to themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yah no. You don’t have to be uneducated. Go search the ‘core principles of conservatism.’

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Go read the news.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Conservatives don't follow that one, and repeatedly vote for people who cannot manage an economy at all.

If I tell you one of my core principles is that all life is sacred, and then I go out hunting, start a couple wars and in general kill a ton of people and animals, me telling you about my core principles is just lying.

Conservatives reliably cannot manage an economy, in fact the US has voted someone in who can't even run a fucking casino. Conservatives are not the side of good economics, no matter how often they lie saying they are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Buddy, decide if you want to push your propaganda or if you want to believe in reality. But stop playing this role of denying facts and history to serve your agenda. You could open your eyes and see a self proclaimed conservative president reducing the federal debt because conservatives are fiscally reserved, or you can choose to stay misinformed but you can’t rationalize this ‘conservatives are everything bad in the world so they are both over and under spenders’ mentality.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

"Mike Johnson says this" doesn't make it reality. Or factual.

As for factual:

Republican presidents have added slightly more to the national debt per term than Democratic presidents, according to inflation-adjusted data from the U.S. Treasury Department and the Bureau of Labor Statistics dating back to 1913.

https://www.investopedia.com/democrats-vs-republicans-who-had-more-national-debt-8738104

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

No no see, they SAID they were more fiscally conservative so it's 100% true!

/s

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

They are not reducing the debt because they are fiscally conservative, that's the sound byte they play for idiot suckers. All they are doing is cutting shit until it fails so they can point to it about how much "government doesn't work" then they can just turn it into a privatized contract to price gouge the shit out of people for the same service they used to get much much more efficiently and cheaper than when it was part of the government.

The real shinning example here is the Health Insurance industry, which, as shown by basically every country that isn't a crappy hell hole, runs much better when it's centralize and universally the same for everyone.

But the US can't seem to grasp that and instead we get endlessly rising costs because profits profits profits! On top of needing it to be a mechanism to strip elderly people of as much wealth as possible to prevent the unwashed masses from ever actually gaining any sort of generational wealth and power.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Funny how all the Crypto bros fell in line with Maga when they were so liberal and blue and so many of the Billionaire backers of the repulican party are also into crypto. Also funny how we now have our first Crypto tzar under republican Trump.

Biden asked for companies to make a bid on EV armoured cars, Tesla was the only bidder and it was not concluded when Biden left office.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Most people are cowards. Many live in survival mode. Wealth makes lives so much better that most people have a sell out price. It’s better to expect that others will sell out to wealth than old and altruistic idea that humans ‘shouldn’t’ have a sell out price. It’s personal morals, kind of like only fans. Some people think it’s really bad, some think it’s great. Overall, we allow it to happen because that’s human tendency.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Lmao! What goes on in your head?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Can’t even punctuate a sentence.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that is not true one bit, alot of republicans, conservative buy into crypto alot they take alot more risks. someone youtubers bought into cryptos during the SBF crash that someone peddled to them on the channel, and they all love trump, when it crashed they all lost a ton of money 1million+each, none of them were so-called liberals. they take alot more risks than you think. also studies have shown that conservatives fall for scams much easier than democrats. i think you are just pulling things out of your behind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

You don’t think crypto was started in the most liberal city in America, San Francisco? You don’t think a majority of the crypto companies are owned by people from culturally liberal places from culturally liberal schools from elite families? I’m not trying to explain but, conservatives are into banking and insurance. Tech is history risky and a core part of conservatism is avoiding fiscal risk. I don’t know about the Trump coin. I quit Avalanche and went to the DOE in 2021 and avoided the space since.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol crypto did not "start" in San Francisco. And if that's so incredibly wrong, there is no point of even considering anything else you wrote.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yah it didn’t ‘start’ but again, all the major starting crypto companies are from SF, NY, western Europe; all liberal ‘progressive’ western political Mecca’s. Not from Lebanon, Kansas City, or religiously dominated countries. You again with my old user name.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, if you're gonna engage in disinformation then at least read the wikipedia page on whatever topic you are targetting so you can come up with something that's more believable. Disinfo is most effective when it is based on some true information taken out of context.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So who was buying the trump coin?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Idk you can tell me? Probably young investors who don’t remember a time before crypto. Young ppl have historically been more ‘left liberal.’ Historically, crypto grew in Americas most liberal cities, hence why crypto is historically associated with democrats. Hence why red states like Montana creating crypto friendly legislation seem so ‘progressive.’ No one uses the word progressive to describe republicans.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Okay, so you don't understand that it was trump's supporters.

The entirety of your comment history reads like a manifesto written by someone who has taken to many stims.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Sorry, but there is no data on that. I can assume but it’s not a fact so I’m not going to claim I know a fact that I don’t. Thanks for following me though

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Most people in crypto are drawn to it the same way people are to gambling apps. Politics means shit and it's just full of people chasing after get rich quick scheme and fixating the price and trying to convince people to keep buying so they can offload their bag. Who the hell plays up crypto like it's some liberal stance when it's been mainstream for years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I do agree that politics don’t impact crypto in a huge amount but to call crypto republican is wildly false and ignores all of crypto history.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The Crypto Industry is full of Libertarian idiots who are not Liberal/Blue in any way shape of form. Its just another scam tool for assholes to sucker idiots out of money and it's never ever going to amount to anything more than that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep he's trying to fool everyone by stopping all aid WITH EXCEPTION ESPECIALLY FOR UKRAINE.
Still sends them weapons.
He unilaterally withdrew from the missile treaties with Russia (immensely aggressive and dangerous) and put missiles in Romania.

It really makes sense doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Your account must be this old --> XX days to roll the Rollercoaster

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Stop. this platform hasn’t been around long enough for bots. You’re just being a bully for no reason but to be mean. It’s a waste of your time and energy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Almost as much of a waste of time as creating alt accounts solely to defend Russian geopolitics?

Honestly, what is the point of pretending to be a leftist while defending the Russian oligarchs? I get critical of the American oligarchs, but what is the point of cheerleading an even more hierarchical and violent form of capitalist imperialism?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Oh, sorry 18 hs account

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look it's back with another banger!
Did it take you a whole day to come up with this very original beauty?
Jeez are you trying to kill me with cringe and boredom?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure stalker
Why do you keep talking to me?
You can only get more ridiculed and humiliated.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are a little detached from reality