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Trump - Putin meeting in Alaska

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by OklahomaGator, Aug 15, 2025 at 2:37 PM.

  1. tripsright

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    I thought moderators were supposed to inform us when a comment was edited and/or deleted???
    Noting an example of the hypocrisy here hits a little too close to home?
     
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  3. Emmitto

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    We got like 100’s of him now.
     
  4. dynogator

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    Some of them, yes. But the base may be crumbling around the edges. When's the last time he held a big rally? His birthday parade was awkwardly tepid. His poll numbers are historically low. I think enough time has passed now that some people are noticing that his bombastic promises are consistently being unmet. This latest Alaskan Abomination won't help his image, either.
     
  5. thomadm

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    Passive attitudes toward thugs is what caused the last world war. I understand the reluctance of wanting to get involved, but its too late.

    If I were in charge, I would have bombed Russias army in 2022 when they were lined up in a row on their way to Kyiv. Russia broke the agreements and invaded another country. We are involved, period. We asked Ukraine to disarm in the 90s. From a moral standpoint, that blood is on our hands and we have to fix it. Putin is an asshole and should be killed, but no one has the balls to do it, so we risk another world war because of it.
     
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  6. chemgator

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    A love letter would not call Putin to task for mass kidnapping of Ukrainian children. Did you not recognize the scolding tone of the letter?
     
  7. gator_fever

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    This is nothing like the WW2 situation with Germany.
     
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  8. dangolegators

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    The immediate stakes might be smaller, but Trump/Putin is totally analogous to Chamberlain/Hitler.
     
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  9. chemgator

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    I would argue that the stakes are higher, based on what each knew at the time. Chamberlain negotiated with Hitler in 1938, well before Germany invaded Poland. Trump negotiated with Putin multiple times over three years after he invaded Ukraine. Hitler did not have nuclear weapons, and he did not have a fully formed and capable army in 1938. Germany was forbidden by treaty to manufacture tanks again after WWI, and did so in the guise of making armored police vehicles for crowd control.

    But I do agree that the comparison between the two situations is valid.
     
  10. thomadm

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    It's exactly the same, economic warfare and geostrategic dominance. The only reason they haven't gone further is nuclear weapons and NATO.