Russia’s resurrected military industrial complex is cannibalising the rest of its economy…The Ukraine war may end in Riyadh

  • @Boddhisatva
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    1511 month ago

    Barbashin says Russia’s leaders expect Trump to issue ultimatums to both Kyiv and Moscow: if Volodymyr Zelensky balks at peace terms, the US will sever all military aid; if Putin drags his feet, the US will up the military ante and carpet-bomb the Russian economy.

    I do not believe for one second that Trump will issue any ultimatums to Putin. Even if he does, there’s zero chance he would follow through on any threats to Russia.

    • TimLovesTech (AuDHD)(he/him)
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      451 month ago

      I feel like we have a better chance of Trump giving Russia military aid than of seeing Trump making any demands of Putin, let alone “carpet-bombing” their economy. Does this author forget that Putin is the Dad Trump wishes he had, and he would do anything to have Putin feign respect for him.

    • @RizzRustbolt
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      431 month ago

      Hell… He’ll probably start sending money, weapons and troops openly to Russia.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        Troops into Russia means US bases in Russia. That would be some completely bizarro world shit.

        • Zement
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          31 month ago

          Well, they can’t live forver. 10 more years of chaos.

          Sadly around 2040 our food supply will collapse, so we have 5 years to do something.

    • Skiluros
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      261 month ago

      Putin will give a Trump a list of demands. The demands are likely exclude complete dealbreakers such as surrendering Zaporizhzhia and Kherson (I am from Ukraine, this doesn’t seem viable).

      Trump will go with putin’s demand; his plan will be to come back to the US public and say “I stopped the war” even though he essentially submitted to putin.

    • Doug Holland
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      211 month ago

      It’s a right-wing source peddling right-wing fantasies. Ukraine probably lost the war on November 5th.

    • @amorpheus
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      151 month ago

      Someone just needs to socially engineer Trump into standing up to Putin to gain his respect.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 month ago

        With any luck, Putin will replace all of Donny’s drawers with Novichok of the Loom for the gesture. Win-win

    • @RegalPotoo
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      101 month ago

      It wouldn’t be out of character for Trump to fuck over a friend/ally of he thinks it would get him an advantage in something he wants

      • jrs100000
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        41 month ago

        Thats true, but the only thing Trump wants from Putin is to finally hear someone say that Daddy is proud of him.