Mafia tactics, plain and simple. This is international racketeering.

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According to the Telegraph, “Trump’s demands would amount to a higher share of Ukrainian GDP than reparations imposed on Germany at the Versailles Treaty, later whittled down at the London Conference in 1921, and by the Dawes Plan in 1924.” At the same time, Trump plans to entirely let Russia off the hook for its invasion of Ukraine three years ago that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths in both countries.

Just imagine being alive to see America do this. While Captain America is in theatres with an African American actor.

Edit: it’s only going to the the worst until the upcoming US aggression.

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Trump’s demands would amount to a higher share of Ukrainian GDP

This was the goal from the beginning. That’s why the Biden administration helped bury them in debt, So when they defaulted on their loans the US and corporations like BlackRock and Citi Bank can come in and claim their resources

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Go back to .ml

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Why? Because you don’t want to hear that your president was complicit in helping bury Ukraine in debt so the US can steal their resources on behalf of US corporations?

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Do you think Bidens support was altruistic?

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Assumes facts not in evidence.

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Trump is and always has been Putin’s bitch. We all know this. Don’t be surprised. It makes things harder, but it’s not the end.

Russia has destroyed itself fighting this war, and Europe is waking up to the fact that it needs to defend itself collectively.

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Good for those who realise and shift away from US dependency

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Russia has depleted its store of draft-age young men. The Europeans need to band together and fund a proxy war to continue to bleed Russia. And rather than allow this looting by Trump, Ukraine should go scorched-earth and destroy all of Russia’s pipelines.

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Horrifying.

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I’m starting to think this Trump guy might not be a good man.

/s

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Hey, yah, and what’s with this Putin guy? Are they like friends or something?

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According to the Telegraph, “Trump’s demands would amount to a higher share of Ukrainian GDP than reparations imposed on Germany at the Versailles Treaty, later whittled down at the London Conference in 1921, and by the Dawes Plan in 1924.” At the same time, Trump plans to entirely let Russia off the hook for its invasion of Ukraine three years ago that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths in both countries

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