Trump, in major shift, suggests Ukraine can win back territory long held by Russia
(www.npr.org)
from vga@sopuli.xyz to world@lemmy.world on 24 Sep 2025 07:50
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from vga@sopuli.xyz to world@lemmy.world on 24 Sep 2025 07:50
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Trump is all over the place on this war, it’s kind of impossible to keep track of his position on it.
Position of the one he spoke to last.
… but yeah Russian economy is in the toilet. Could be a factor.
Is the Russian economy really in the toilet or is that what some actors want you to believe? They don’t seem to be slowing down one bit, if anything they are pushing even more, which doesn’t sound like a country struggling economically at all.
Gas stations don’t have gas at all or it’s expensive.
Any idea what happens to modern society after logistics starts to stall, even if it’s just civilian?
They will keep pushing till they don’t.
There was a gas shortage last year in the UK for a couple of weeks. Does it mean its economy collapsed for a couple of weeks?
I really wish that what you are saying was true. But the reality looks different to me.
Couple of weeks is nothing.
Especially if it’s something that logistics and warehouses can prepare for. Like a labour strike.
Just look at whoever he was most recently talking to. He’ll magically mirror their opinions.
Really goes to show that he’s a pawn in this game, even though he (or his overlords) make it look like he’s the head honcho.
Dementia
Why not both, eh
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I think he’s pissed off at Putin after nothing changed following their meeting, and that made him look foolish.
Let’s hope putin continues to make Trump look like a fool.
Like he was pissed about Netenyahu and nothing changed?
Trump is all over the place
on this war, it’s kind of impossible to keep track of his positionon it.Electron Trump?
The Majorest Shift Today
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HCR has this one nailed down in one. Trump is at the point where it’s highly questionable whether or not he has the mental competence, as an 80 year old, to continue holding the presidency.
The White House is not documenting everything he says they’re offering up edits. Where you can go to see how he truly sounds right now, unedited by his personal posse, is the UN speech he gave. He’s off the rails, mentally, beyond the usual.
He’s not tracking, mentally. We are, or very nearly are, in Diane Feinstein territory.
Ukraine flip is a piece of that. He forgot his stance, probably, and is now riding the inertia of his usual “fake it til you make it” personal algorithm.
It’s at the point now where it really doesn’t matter what Trump says, and it baffles me the the media hang on his words… because it’s all a regurgitated word salad and he’s entirely in the moment with no filter. He’s a liability in so many ways.
What he and his administration does, matters much more than what he says.
Trump doesn't have major shifts, he has momentary whims based on what he thinks will gain him praise and/or money.
Also, whoever most recently had his ear. Like last time at the Vatican, when he spoke with Zelenskyy.