Summary

The White House has directed the State and Treasury Departments to draft a proposal for lifting some U.S. sanctions on Russia as part of Trump’s effort to restore ties and end the Ukraine war.

The proposal could ease restrictions on select Russian entities and oligarchs, though it’s unclear what the U.S. would receive in return.

Trump has signaled openness to sanctions relief despite previously threatening harsher measures.

Talks between U.S. and Russian officials have intensified, with economic cooperation, including rare earth minerals, emerging as a key topic.

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    17 hours ago

    Fight Canada, help Russia. How in the hell are Republicans just watching this happen? Cowards and frauds, all of them.

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      Krasnov Trump scammed his investors, loans and bankrupted his casinos. He is doing the same to US to enrich himself.

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    Does anyone else remember the 2016 debate with Hillary Clinton where she accused Trump of being a puppet for Putin, and he interrupted “No puppet, no puppet! You’re the puppet!”

    Or when Alnur Mussayev, the Russian officer who served in the KGB’s 6th Directorate in Moscow, said that Trump was recruited as a Russian agent in 1987, under the codename “Krasnov”, when he went to Russia for a “real estate project”.

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      Remember when the SS lost all of their communication records from Jan 6th?

      Europe please be ready. My tea leaves are pointing towards the use of nuclear weapons in Europe while the us is distracted with civil unrest.

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    Reward your friends, punish your enemies. Trump showing that he views Russia as an ally, and Canada as a threat.

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    And another piece of evidence that Trump is nothing but a Russian agent in the Oval Office. When will the US media finally start to ask about this?

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    This is so wrong. I hate what we’ve become. As an American, I’ve never been proud of what this country has done but I’ve never been THIS ashamed. I feel like a joke.

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      As an American? Surely you mean as a proud member of the new American Protectorate of the Russian Federation, comrade?

      APRF, got a ring to it!

      Anyway better start being proud or it’s off to Gulaganamo Bay…

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      To help Putin, he is bankrupting USA just like how he bankrupted his casinos.

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      Nothing. 50% of the country loves their strongman president more than freedom or common sense

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        kindly, Fuck off.

        A couple of suspicious sounding phone calls intercepted from an embassy, when every embassy in the country was having their own discussions about their preferred outcome to the collapse of a government, do not influence millions of Ukrainians who know their own country and government, to take to the streets in a riot over being betrayed over something they voted for.

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    Yeah I figured this would happen. And when the cost of gas goes up because of his Tarrifs we’ll be buying oil from Russia again…

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    I have nothing against americans, but this is Hitler level bullshit and if americans dont wake up after this (like revolt level wake up), they are no better than today russians orks or past german nazis sympathizer. Until they get their shit together by getting rid of this orange shit pile, americans can just go fuck themselves…

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      I posted this on a Reddit thread, but we have become very dependent on certain technologies. The resistance is taking a while to get warmed up. One of the biggest issues is our communication channels used in the first administration have all been compromised. Twitter, Whatsapp, and Reddit are all being used against us. There may never be a hashtag protest again.

      No one thinks this is normal or okay. But there is an air of fear that the secret police tech bros are listening.

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        FYI if everybody no longer pay their taxes and no longer work, its game over for the government in less than a year and in a peacefull way… (Excluding food, energy and health sector of course, and people will need to be able to rely on their communities exclusively, but lets be honest, in the US its already the case…)

        Imagine a COVID but as a national and perpetual strike/protest. Even with a third of the population doing that, it would work.

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      bUt wE hAvE oUr oWn PrObLeMs. tHiS dOeSn’T cOnCeRn Us.

      Fucking shameful and depressing. Makes me realize that slogans like “never again” are not at all realistic because they’ll always be idiots who think shit doesn’t concern them, until it does.

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      I’m trying hard not to accuse America per se but recognise that this is Trump and his administration being driven by Kremlin interference and direct involvement.

      I cannot see the American people putting up with this nightmare but I fear it’s not hitting home as it should.

      Ukraine is just a part of a bigger picture where Russia is actively interfering with Western politics, business, governments, elections and referendums with the aim of bringing down the West.

      With the traditional USA out of the game Russia will move on to eastern Europe. In the meantime China makes it’s move on Taiwan and others in the region; the Trump USA taking Canada, Greenland, Western Europe; the middle east being carved between Russia and Trump USA.

      It’s going to get a lot worse before it gets any better whilst Trump is in power.

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        I sincerely hope that the military, even red state members, would recognize invading Canada or any of these countries as being a real fucked move and not what they signed up for.