Jeez, from that photo, Putin is trying to rival Donnie ''red tie" Trump for longest necktie.
Here’s a hint, gentlemen: you tie your tie in such a way that the pointed tip sits just above your belt. If, in doing so, the other half of your tie is longer, you tuck it into your shirt.
Just sayin’, is all.
If he had any ethics whatsoever he would’t be doing what he’s doing. Like his orange hero, Carlson hopes to at least legally tread on the right side of the line between free speech and outright subversion. He obviously doesn’t give a shit about anything except himself, and figures that better people than he could ever be will continue to make the world a livable place while he profits from notoriety.
Late to the game, and a lot of this has been already said, but if we assume that a second Trump term comes with Republican control of both houses of Congress (which would seem likely), I feel pretty safe in predicting the following:
Ugh.
Cite?
Had he misspoken, he might’ve fallen out a window.
Sadly, ain’t got one.
Non-US poster here, so obviously most concerned with the disturbance to a stable world order. Countries like Russia, China, North Korea and Iran likely to feel emboldened to further their aims which could all too easily trigger escalation by a President who’s both terrifyingly incompetent as well as stunningly self-centred.
If the worst does come to pass in November, I’ll be shifting into defensive stocks like consumer staples - it’ll be only a matter of time before the global economy suffers through more war or terrorism.
trump lets Putin take Alaska back.
John Bolton (who has never seen a war he didn’t love) predicts that within a year of Trump withdrawing from NATO, Russia will swallow the three Baltic states.
But here’s the worst. Trump will decided he likes being president so come 2028 he runs again. XXII Amendment, bah. Scotus will have ruled that states cannot keep an ineligible candidate off the ballot unless congress authorizes them to–and it won’t. Then Trump wins the election and electors vote for Trump. Congress counts the EVs and declares him the winner. Chief Justice Aileen Cannon swears him in and he is president-for-life.
As bad as all that is, it would get even worse after he dies. We’d have a modern version of what the Roman Empire experienced back in the day when a Caeser died.
Russia will have to kill around 2,000 Canadian troops in Latvia alone in the process. Along with 2,000 other NATO troops in Latvia, 2,000 in Estonia and 3700 in Lithuania. I don’t think Britain and France with their nuclear arsenals are going to just sit back and watch that happen.
Why not? It’s only 3 tiny countries with no important assets. Ukraine is huge and grows half the world’s wheat…and nobody really cares that Russia is destroying it. The west is willing to sit back and watch while 40 million Ukranians suffer, with a quarter million dead. Two thousand dead Canadian soldiers wont be worth starting a nuclear war.
If Trump wins, Russia will take a lot more territory.
No, direct attack on NATO troops would be a Really Big Fucking Deal, not a yawnfest as you imply.
The West clearly does care about Ukraine. Maybe not as much as they should, and no thanks to the Putin loving Republicans, but a lot of help has been and is being sent.
I agree with you this would be a big fucking deal but I’m not sure France, Canada or Britain would be up for a nuclear war when the US makes it clear they will not lift a finger to protect the Baltic States or take any action against Russia for killing NATO troops.
In this situation, I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t fire the first nuke. In fact, I know Canada won’t 
But Russia might. The supposition is that Russia will kill the NATO troops in these countries, and successfully invade them. I don’t think that’s what would really happen. We saw how much trouble Russia had with invading Ukraine, and that was against a power that doesn’t have the same combined arms doctrines that NATO relies on. The troops on the ground would be backed up by air strikes from all over Europe, air strikes that the Russians would not be able to stop. Russia may have massive air defences inside Russia, but they won’t be bringing all that with them. Everything they send across the border will be wide open to attack, and we will attack them.
It’s only after that force is largely annihilated that we might worry about a Russian nuclear strike, as their last gasp effort to make the whole mess something more than a complete failure.
Agreed. And that would be true even absent a US force doing anything, on the orders of Generalissimo Trump. NATO in Europe is more than a match for what Russia can throw at them now (as opposed to what we thought they could throw a decade ago_
It really comes down to Trump doesn’t care about Ukraine. He couldn’t find it on a map. If he suddenly said, “Fund Urkaine bigly!”, the MAGAs would be tripping over each other to do so and screaming that the Dems are screwing their favorite country. The elected Rs would, of course, follow suit.
Oh I don’t know about that. While I’m sure he could not find it, he’s pissed that Zelenskyy had a backbone and stood up to his attempted extortion.
Holding a grudge only takes a back seat to narcissism and ego with this… person.
And of course Putin likely has Trumps ear, as well as who knows what else.
Perhaps I could have stated it clearer. Its not that he doesn’t care about Ukraine. Trump doesn’t care for Ukraine. Especially, after Zelensky wouldn’t bend the knee.