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[–] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

What's unusual about preferring the more stable and predictable party? Republicans are less anti-Russia one day, then say some bs about space nukes the other. At least Biden's a bit more consistent.

[–] H4rdStyl3z@lemmy.ml 61 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Reverse psychology? Is he trying to make libs think that Biden has been compromised by Russia, therefore Trump wins, which is actually what Putin wants?

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It's just trolling. Next magas will say "he's scared of Trump" and so on.

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://youtu.be/KX2WVIaVUGo?t=23

I would say at least our electorate is smarter than Elmer Fudd, but...

[–] H4rdStyl3z@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago
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[–] toasteecup@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that mean Republicans are going to vote Biden since they shill Russia?

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope. Just means that Republicans are going to switch back to anti Russia suddenly and without a reason except "he said democrats are good"

In reality, putler's entire strategy for the US has been to create discord and chaos and bank on the fact that we'll be too paralyzed as a country to properly react to the things Russia does.

[–] H4rdStyl3z@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't think that'll work in his favor but then again, he also thought he'd conquer Ukraine in 3 days...

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[–] SkabySkalywag@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

God damn mega troll... Gotta admire the legendary mind fuckery against for both sides though.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Welp we now know the truth... Putin is pushing for Trump again.

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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Imagine having coherent politics and recognizing that Putin knows that Biden is more stable than Trump and would be less likely to escalate the war in Ukraine...

...Instead of having to be like "is he playing mindgames? Is this him trolling us? He says he wants blue team to win in 2024, but we are blue team and we hate him!"

[–] dvoraqs@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump seems like he is more likely to dismiss the war or help the Russian side by weakening NATO. Why would Biden be preferable to Russia if he is going to continue trying to supply Ukraine?

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The thing is Trump would either weaken nato by insisting on member nations upping their military expenditures or escalate the war.

In the first case NATO doesn't need to weaken for Russia to accomplish its immediate objectives, it is weak enough already.

In the latter case nukes might fly.

It makes sense for Putin to want Biden to stay president, there would be no additional winning and major risk with a Trump presidency.

[–] abbenm@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

or escalate the war.

This seems to run contrary to everything I've read about Trump's position. The first half of what you said is at least somewhat accurate. But the second half is contradicted by numerous reports from Trump that his approach would have been to "take a deal" and get out, implicitly with substantial land concessions from Ukraine. And then there's the fact that both of them have profess to having positive relationships with one another and admiring one another.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump did a random missile strike on an Iranian general, he can unpredictably escalate stuff.

But the second half is contradicted by numerous reports from Trump that his approach would have been to “take a deal” and get out.

Okay but do you think he'd actually follow through, and do you think that a negotiated end to the war would be a bad thing?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Trump did a random missile strike on an Iranian general

It wasn't random. It was to appeal the warhawks in republican party. If you remember how it went, they were ramping up rhetorics and manufacturing consent for war with Iran, but that stopped really abruptly, like cut with knife. I don't know what was the real reason or their combination, it might be that the manufacturing consent was not working as intended, maybe ithey pushed too fast, maybe Pentagon wasn't ready, maybe because Iran shot down their most modern drone with old Soviet missile using domestically manufactured radar proving their deffensive capabilities were more significant than what Pentagon assumed. Anyway, the ramping to war stopped so suddenly that even the leading warhawk that is John Bolton was surprised and he even got sacked from WH which prompted him to publish book where he accuse Trump of being less warhawk than himself and many rep senators.

So Soleimani was assassinated to appease the warhawks and because US have to have last word.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer pulled the same sneering bullshit in 2020.

Anyone who parrots this sincerely can be blocked without hesitation or regret. No, the guy at war with Ukraine because he's mad at NATO does not actually want the guy funding Ukraine instead of the guy undermining NATO.

I can't even comprehend the people somehow awed by this trivial child-move. It is the most obvious stupid lie he could tell, and it doesn't even prevent him from later saying the exact opposite, because the people who buy it don't really care about words.

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Thing is, Trump isn't "undermining NATO", he's trying to escalate the war by calling upon member states to increase military expenditure or he says he'll let Russia have at them - which is a lie of course, someone put in power through the US political system genuinely wanting to undermine their imperialist institutions would just be replaced, like JFK was for wanting to abolish the CIA.

It makes sense to prefer the more stable and predictable party over the one that's less anti-Russia one day, then spouts some bs about Russian space nukes the next, specially when the war has more or less been working out for Russia lately under that stable party.

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[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wartime is the best time to pull out the block. Can't remember how many people on mastodon I yeeted for cheering on the genocide of Palestine. All I can say is that my experience there has been a lot better ever since I did. Genocidal fascists are consistently the worst posters.

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[–] OtakuAltair@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

So he likes that Biden is more "predictable" than Trump. Ig that's true enough.

[–] Geobloke@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Probably because that would cause more internal strife than a trump victory

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I believe it. Biden's support of genocide is making the US a pariah state to the rest of the world stage.

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[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this that new Russian secret weapon?

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Putin weaponises Biden"

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