• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I never had the U.S. switching sides on my bingo card. I thought at most they would stop providing aid and support. Trumps policies were very isolationist in his first term.

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      3 days ago

      We don’t need to switch sides overtly for our hyena financiers and industry captains to make a buck trading with Russia, giving their war economy a sigh of relief which they desperately need.

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      3 days ago

      I never had the U.S. switching sides on my bingo card.

      I don’t know why anyone was caught flatfooted by this when it was clear to anyone paying attention that if Trump was elected, his plan to end the war was to hand control of Ukraine over to Russia.

      This was as obvious and predictable as the January 6th insurrection.

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        2 days ago

        Imma call one thing out; 01/06 was not predictable. Every single one of us watched in pure shock. I watched 8 hours, live, and I cannot do it again, shit left me with PTSD-light. I’ve done and seen some crazy shit in life, but not like that.

        Here’s the PBS trailer:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHQ6FoDjeDE

        If anyone can take it, I’d suggest a refresher course. The event was worse than even I remember, and I’m a hater from day 1.

        All you can eat documentaries:

        https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/january-6-insurrection-capitol-attack-documentaries-streaming/

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          2 days ago

          Dude, I was watching live coverage of the 01/06 proceedings and saw the early breakouts of the problem and then the devolution of it.

          Wanna know why I was watching such a boring, non-event? Because everyone with a Twitter account, the ability to read, and a pulse knew that Trump’s supporters absolutely were going to try something on 01/06.

          If I knew there was a good enough probability that something would go down that I was watching live coverage of what’s typically not even something anyone ever talks about, the event was completely and utterly predictable.

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          2 days ago

          He was cheering the invasion and said Putin was a genius for timing it when he did or whatever.