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Trump is pushing for softer language on Russia’s war in Ukraine, straining G7 unity.

Officials say the U.S. is blocking references to “Russian aggression” and prefers calling it the “Ukraine conflict.”

This shift follows Trump’s peace talks with Putin that excluded Ukraine’s President Zelensky, whom Trump later called a “dictator.”

The change in rhetoric contrasts with Biden-era support for Ukraine and threatens a unified G7 stance.

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    Do what they did to Russia, kick the US the fuck out and start calling it the G6. It was the G8 from 1997 to 2014, they can stand to lose another.

    The US is literally trying to kickstart an economic depression in the US. Why the fuck would you want these guys in economics talks when they clearly understand FUCK ALL about economics? A US depression will fuck up the rest of the world’s economics as well, and that’s clearly the long-term goal.

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      “The US” isnt doing anything. Trump and his scumbags are destroying everything.

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        When Trump does something, the party that controls House, Senate and Supreme court follows his marching orders, the richest and most influential individuals act as his lieutenants, almost half of the country agree with it, and the other half doesn’t resist or strike, then YES! THE US DOES THE THING!

        The Nazis didn’t have 100% popular support in Germany. They didn’t have 50% active supporters. They had 10% party membership, even though non-members couldn’t enter a career in many fields, were harassed by authorities, and lots of people were entered into the party automatically.
        Still, it was NAZI GERMANY.

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          AND… within Nazi Germany, were real Germans who stood against Nazism, however they could…

          there are a few books on that, “An Honorable Defeat” is one I’ve heard-of.

          Oversimplification is anti-survival: it is just another ideology/prejudice/“religion”.

          The US, the official US, is now Trump’s property, & Trump ( CURRENTLY ) is Putin’s property, & Musk’s.

          I expect Trump to have a minor aneurism/stroke or something, which will remove empathy from him, completely.

          ( he’s fighting that personality-conversion, in my view )

          But no matter how psychopathic/machiavellian/nihilist/sadistic the official US becomes, there’s good people there.

          ( remember that biblical thing, can’t remember who it was, perhaps Abraham,

          who argued with G-D, that if there are good people there, then don’t destroy the place?

          I think he was doing the wrong-selectivity: he should have been demanding that they, the good people,

          be spared the destruction that G-D was about to toss on the evil…

          & if it was the Sodom & Gomorrah story,

          then as I’ve pointed-out before, if the angels visiting the good guy who lived there had been female angels,

          & the gang-rapers trying to get in had been intending heterosexual-rape,

          that would not, in any way, whatsoever, have made their intent non-evil.

          It wasn’t their sexual-orientation, it was the gang-raping-angels, that made it abomination.

          Anyways, back to the original message : )

          Back on reddit I was permabanned from some communities, simply for posting in specific-other communities.

          The Problem™ I had with that?

          I’d been commenting in those other communities specifically to counter the abuse they were heaping on somebody.

          So, I got judged to be one-of-the-abusers because of the venue I’d spoken in, which I’d spoken-in only to counter its abuse…

          I’ve been gaslit all my life, & am fed-up with it.

          Differentiate correctly, & don’t abuse the innocent, is one of the rules-of-life I live by, now.

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        There’s an Arabic saying that roughly translated goes something like this: Sins are wide and good deeds are narrow. The meaning is that when a large part of a group of people is sinful, just not being implicated in sin doesn’t protect you; you have to work to stop or you have no business trying to be excused from whatever punishment will come. In other words, you gotta work to stop the evil being done or you’re well within the moral blast radius. So… That’s what’s going on here; with this framework more than 99% of America is guilty.

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          I think the Dems are more guilty of being foolish, than of intentionally-accommodating “GEOTUS”…

          Biden blocked Harris from campaigning until it was too-late, & … whatshername … Pelosi’s threat to destroy Biden’s campaign was the only thing which finally pried his hands off the opportunity…

          They lived entirely-within Hopium.

          They … mostly, or nearly-all, possibly-all, … aren’t going to survive the US Civil War Part2 which will erupt when it becomes enacted that there isn’t going to be any 2028 election, or sometime around then, anyways…

          I don’t expect much of the population of this continent to survive the next decade…

          & many have worked, hard, at preventing this…

          The male-supremacists & the white-supremacists who voted against Harris, THEY are guilty, certainly…

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            I mean, can’t we go back to the way that the Dems refused to see that Hillary was not popular, and how party leaders actively intervened to make sure that no one resembling an actual Dem (Bernie) got the nomination?

            I think that’s really where the writing was on the wall - sabotage a popular candidate with the kind of populist support that we saw launch Trump into office, to platform someone who was probably one of the most hated women in America?

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      If I recall correctly, it’s about destabilizing the Dollar and making their (China and Russia’s) financial system become the world standard…

      It all comes down to money. It always does.

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    Officials say the U.S. is blocking references to “Russian aggression” and prefers calling it the “Ukraine conflict.”

    “Ukraine conflict.”

    “Women.”

    “Freedom.”

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    G7/G6/G8.

    Who cares it’s a eurocentric club anyway.

    G20 is the real global conference.

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    According to Alnur Mussayev, 6th Directorate of the KGB in Moscow, Don was recruited by the KGB in 1987 and given the codename Krasnov.

    Drop the USA and change the metting to the G6 + California until Jan 2029.

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    Blow it apart. America doesn’t belong with its former Allies.

    Its clear that America has no interest in being apart of the free world, they checked out.

    Now fuck off and go destroy yourselves in a frenzy over transgender bathroom doors and eggs. The rest of us still have lives to live and futures to protect.

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    I’d love to ask all of the MAGA heads to just question themselves this: Why go through all of this just to help Putin. Some fucked up shit must go on that Trump risks all of this just for Putin.

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        The US helps Israel because they like the US more than the rest of the middle east and the US wants control of the middle east so Iran doesn’t control it as a proxy for Russia.

        So the US supports Isreal to hurt Russian interests. And is now diverting all Ukraine funds to Isreal to waste the money.

        Under Biden we were on track to steal Palestine as a reaction to Putin stealing parts of Ukraine.

        Now that Putin has Ukraine he doesn’t care about distracting the US through Iran and is fine having his puppet Trump keep sending their tax dollars to Isreal.

        But since Trump is giving up Ukraine it is more of a trade where the US trades control of Ukraine for control of Palestine.

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          The US has already had control over Palestine through Israel for decades.

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          joe biden himself said if isreal wouldnt exist, america would need to create a proxy there to control the region.

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          Sorry but what the fuck are you talking about. You’re inventing connections between conflicts that aren’t there. Russia and the US don’t particularly care about Palestine. Believing that there’s some kind of exchange where the US is ‘taking’ Palestine because of the conflict in Ukraine is some of the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard. It’s like you think all of geopolitics is the US and Russia sitting around a map of the world and both of them are ten year olds.

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    Kick the US out. If our democracy survives Trump, you can always readmit us when we have a president who acts in good faith. Otherwise, this shit is only going to get worse…

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      Unfortunately it’s likely going to take more than just electing a nice guy for USA to earn back its status as a trustworthy ally. When the country can just go rogue every four years, making threats against allies and backing out of agreements — and half of the country is so nationalist that they applaud it — you can’t really establish a basis of trust.

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        By allowing our politicians a seat at the table you’re opening yourself up to more harm.

        Isolate us, make the voting public feel the consequences of their actions. Respond to tariffs with tariffs on red states. Sanction administration official of the inevitable human rights abuses that are coming. Call out the lies of our Government openly and with evidence.

        This isn’t going to change if there are never any consequences for the people who’re doing this as well as their supporters. Revoke the visas of our oligarchs, limit their travel, stop doing business with their companies. Create incentives for educated Americans to immigrate to healthier democracies and ban our social media companies before they finish poisoning your country as well.

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          We don’t want educated Americans emmigrating elsewhere. We want you to fix your shit and educated Americans are the only ones that can do that.

          If you leave, the idiots are left in charge of some of the spiciest military hardware and without smart people, will probably end up using it.

          The voting public seem to be pretty susceptible to whatever spin the Orange House puts on the consequences of their actions.

          Do you really believe they’ll see through what Trump does and blame themselves before blaming Canada, for example?

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          I am hoping that if the American dollar hyperinflates, Europe will blacklist billionaires and Muskcoin, instead only offering Euros for assets among non-billionaires. That will keep Europe insulated, and maybe allowing it to take a chunk of Red American flesh. They could also allow Blue States to swap dollars for Euros at a favorable rate for them, to rig the restructuring of America in the favor of non-fascists.

          The Euro could become the Dollar of the future.

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        Precisely this. Once this trust has been lost and the ‘G6’ face a world where they cannot count on the US, geopolicies will change and the US will not be perceived trustworthy anytime soon. As it stands, it will be considered yet another global power with anti-democratic tendencies, policies that endanger world piece and disrupt the common pursuit for prosperity and is considered best kept in check.

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        I’m a US citizen. Please kick us out. The more countries that take concrete action against us that actually hurt us the more likely congress and the voters are to stand up to Trump.

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          If you think any fact will affect the American public, you are much more optimistic than me.

          Republicans will blame Soros, o Pelosi, or AOC and trump will have even more support.

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            That’s assuming they even pay attention to anything international other than Ukraine or Israel (many don’t).

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        I wish you were wrong.

        I guess I can pray for balkanization and that our further allies take pity on whatever Blue City State I end up being a member of.

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        Agreed. We earned this. I hope we gain the world’s trust again, but it’ll most likely never be like it was…

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      Yeah, China’s not in even though it’s the second largest economy in the world. In the 90s it almost became G-8 to include Russia, but then Putin screwed that up.

      It’s not all that different of a situation from Russia being kicked out because of Putin’s shenanigans, really.

      Should try to get Brazil to leave BRICS and join the G-7 club. The US could go be in BRICS bullshit (or maybe then it’d be called the USRICS?) with the other authoritarian assholes of the world.

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        2". That’s all we needed. Even small hands Trump knows what two inches looks like, it’s basically nothing. So damn close.

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      You are better than that. Don’t stoop to their level or you become like them.

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        Do you believe that we are in any kind of high-road position at this point in time?

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        I’ve always wondered why so many people peacefully marched into the trains, trucks, and death camps, then I see the sheer amount of people like you who say that and remember why. Maybe it’s a personality thing, some of us who are faced with annihalation vs annihalation with a fight, we choose the latter. Most people will just take annihalation peacefully out of fear or laziness.

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          Your words isn’t “action for change”. These are nothing but empty internet barks. Are you saying you’re ready to commit violence? I don’t think so. Too many barkers but in reality nobody are biters. So save the empty words. Fascism is right in your face. In your neighborhood. What are you doing about it?

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            It’s less about being ready to commit violence, and more like willing to die or lose all my freedoms for my beliefs. Tried doing things the peaceful, in-the-system way, working charities for blind people, deaf children, as well as various environmental causes. Got pretty high up in all of them, high up enough to learn that every roadblock to getting people medical aid, more blind people-friendly infastructure, cochlear implants for children, or utilizing cutting edge alternatives to oil and plastic using fruit waste and algae, every time it’s the millionaire/billionaire investor class that can’t see any profit incentive to helping people. I show up to pitifully occupy sidewalks regularly, I even take off work and take the financial hit if there are any demonstrations in my area. In August during the pogroms in the UK, I helped protect a mosque and got bricks thrown at me, hurt like a mofo but i’d take a million more. Helped nice young college girls get medical after getting bricks hurled at the heads and faces by fascists, meanwhile the cops did nothing but stand with their backs faced to the brick throwers, watching us get pelted with bricks and fireworks. None of this makes me even close to as radicalized as the fact that humans produce 3x the calories to feed every person on the planet yet we still charge money for food, and while there’s all these problems that need resources there’s $36 TRILLION sitting in offshore tax havens (as of 2016 according to the IMF).

            I’m not willing to do violence, i’m willing to do anything even risk my life to stop them. I’d rather be smiling in front of a firing squad than peacefully obeying a soldier at gunpoint as he marches me to the camps. Perhaps you’re just not that guy.

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              Stop typing. Start doing. More action. Less typing keyboard warrior. My engagement with you ends here.