Global Events & Politics Überthread
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acesfull86
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Deadliest attack in Ukraine so far this year. This could’ve all been avoided if Zelenskyy had just said thank you and put on a tie.
sturg33
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Sorry cutting spending doesn't work. Even though it does in Argentina, youre low iq if you think it would here
chop2chip
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Kinda unreal how Canada was on the verge of a conservatism revival and Trump torpedoed that for no reason. Instead Canada is going to elect an intelligent version of Trudeau.
sturg33
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Trump moves everything he can influence to the left
I don’t even understand it from a pro-Trump perspective. Even though Poilievre distanced himself from Trump, Carney was deeply, deeply anti-Trump and he won handily. Is the pro-Trump argument here that Conservatives just weren’t pro-Trump enough?
acesfull86
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https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/04/trumps-51st-state-folly/
Forgive me, if you will, for shuffling swiftly past all the glitter and diversions and obsequious fawning, and for instead electing to focus on such anachronistic and prosaic questions as “why?” and “what?” But I would be forever indebted if a single quasi-literate person in this country could explain to me what the hell was the point in Donald Trump’s relentless and often vehement insistence that Canada ought to become the 51st state.
“It was funny” won’t suffice, I’m afraid. I am told as a matter of unlovely routine that Trump’s ongoing presence in our national life is necessary because the alternatives are feckless and weak and incapable of conserving anything, and so, with that in mind, I must sedulously press the point: What did Trump get out of this ploy? What did America gain? What did Republican voters achieve? What was improved for conservatism, or nationalism, or MAGA, or whatever other Trump-coded movements are the supposed beneficiaries of his maneuvers?
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I certainly don’t have an answer… need our Trump translators back
Forgive me, if you will, for shuffling swiftly past all the glitter and diversions and obsequious fawning, and for instead electing to focus on such anachronistic and prosaic questions as “why?” and “what?” But I would be forever indebted if a single quasi-literate person in this country could explain to me what the hell was the point in Donald Trump’s relentless and often vehement insistence that Canada ought to become the 51st state.
“It was funny” won’t suffice, I’m afraid. I am told as a matter of unlovely routine that Trump’s ongoing presence in our national life is necessary because the alternatives are feckless and weak and incapable of conserving anything, and so, with that in mind, I must sedulously press the point: What did Trump get out of this ploy? What did America gain? What did Republican voters achieve? What was improved for conservatism, or nationalism, or MAGA, or whatever other Trump-coded movements are the supposed beneficiaries of his maneuvers?
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I certainly don’t have an answer… need our Trump translators back
sturg33
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This is an easy one.
He taught conservatives that if they don't bow down to him, they will be destroyed.
MAGA!
cajunrevenge
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Pakistan claims it has ‘credible intelligence’ India will strike within 36 hours | CNN
Tensions between India and Pakistan have escalated further after a top Pakistani official claimed early Wednesday to have “credible intelligence” that New Delhi will carry out a military action against Islamabad within the next two days.
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India and Pakistan on the brink of war. This never would have happened if Trump was President.