Republican Urges Trump, Colleagues to Stand Up to Putin

Monday, March 31, 2025

Don Bacon, New York Times: I'm a Republican Who Still Supports Ukraine. America Must Not Give In to Putin.

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"The United States and the rest of Europe shamelessly abandoned these security commitments."

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-- Raw Story (@rawstory.com) March 31, 2025 at 6:48 AM

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Not going to happen. MAGA is pro-Russian and pro-fascist and they are currently big on the lie that Trump is a man of peace.

Aside from that, most of these GOP politicos are little more than cowards attempting to plot their way through the Trum regnum such that they can still die rich and of old age.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-31 09:53 AM | Reply

Putin's DNA receptacle is always on all fours when dealing with his Moscow superiors.

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-31 10:23 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Unfortunately, Putin is the only one able to keep Trump and his psychopathic Christian nationalist and Zionist enablers from starting WWIII in the ME.

#3 | Posted by Expectingreign at 2025-03-31 10:35 AM | Reply

Unlike Biden Trump will tariff the hell out of Russia. We never even saw Biden trying to negotiate a peace deal, he just kept throwing money at the military complex.

#4 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-03-31 10:54 AM | Reply

Unlike Biden Trump will tariff the hell out of Russia.

I got a few questions on that. Let's start with the basic one, first:
Who pays those tariffs?

#5 | Posted by YAV at 2025-03-31 10:57 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

#4 | Posted by fishpaw

There only needs to be ONE peace deal. Russia needs to get the hell out of Ukraine. Then there will be peace.

#6 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-03-31 10:59 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

#6 - Yep.

#7 | Posted by YAV at 2025-03-31 11:03 AM | Reply

"Trump will tariff the hell out of Russia"

United States Imports from Russia was US $3.27 Billion during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. United States Imports from Russia - data, historical chart and statistics - was last updated on March of 2025.

tradingeconomics.com

#8 | Posted by schifferbrains at 2025-03-31 11:11 AM | Reply

How many American military bases is the orange turd going to surrender to Russia this term?

#9 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-31 11:21 AM | Reply

Trump will tariff the hell out of Russia.

#4 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

Putin is frightened of tariffs?

Jeez. You don't live in this universe.

#10 | Posted by Zed at 2025-03-31 11:23 AM | Reply

Republican Urges Trump, Colleagues to Stand Up to Putin

Trump knows better than to bite the hand that feeds him.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-31 11:33 AM | Reply

Unlike Biden Trump will tariff the hell out of Russia.
#4 | POSTED BY FISHPAWN

Probably because Biden used Sanctions.

A tariff is something you place on commodity you import from trade partners.

What exactly do we import from Russia?

Other than wives for Trump?

FishPawn, I'm not too sure how, but you seem to get dumber, every day.

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-31 11:35 AM | Reply

How many American military bases is the orange turd going to surrender to Russia this term?

All of them.

#13 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-31 11:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Wonderful! And should TrumpCo actually grow/rent/buy himself a spine and stand up to his Russian master(s), no doubt we'll finally see the Damoclesian kompromat Vlad's been holding over Trump's artfully-quaffed head all thes years. Perhaps I should dig out the popcorn I squirreled away for just this occasion.

#14 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-03-31 12:23 PM | Reply

What exactly do we import from Russia?

Other than wives for Trump?

FishPawn, I'm not too sure how, but you seem to get dumber, every day.

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-31 11:35 AM | Reply | Flag:
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They are tariffs placed on other countries that buy products from Russia like oil and grains. It's complicated so don't bother researching it.

#15 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-03-31 01:24 PM | Reply

Probably because Biden used Sanctions.

A tariff is something you place on commodity you import from trade partners.

What exactly do we import from Russia?

Other than wives for Trump?

FishPawn, I'm not too sure how, but you seem to get dumber, every day.

#12 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-31 11:35 AM | Reply | Flag:
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So you are saying Biden used sanctions, good.
Trump using sanctions, bad.

And you are right, I get dumber everyday reading your posts.

#16 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-03-31 01:26 PM | Reply

Trump is gonna suck Putin's dick like the whore he is.

FishPawn will be there waiting to wipe his mouth for him.

#17 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-31 01:26 PM | Reply

So you are saying Biden used sanctions, good.
Trump using sanctions, bad.

You're saying Trump is planning on sanctioning Russia?

That's the first I'm hearing of such news.

Perhaps the discussion you're referring to occurred in your fantasies of me.

#18 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-31 01:29 PM | Reply

Putin to Conscript 160,000 More Russians for Ukraine War

www.politico.eu

The noxious orange pedo has the orcs quaking in their boots.

#19 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-31 01:48 PM | Reply

So you are saying Biden used sanctions, good.

Thanks for answer the question on tariffs, though indirectly. You think tariffs and sanctions are the same thing! lol!

#20 | Posted by YAV at 2025-03-31 02:16 PM | Reply

You're saying Trump is planning on sanctioning Russia?

That's the first I'm hearing of such news.

Perhaps the discussion you're referring to occurred in your fantasies of me.

#18 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-31 01:29 PM | Reply | Flag:
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It was on Meet the Press yesterday idiot. I'm sure you didn't see it since it was most likely cartoon morning in your trailer.

#21 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-03-31 02:24 PM | Reply

You think tariffs and sanctions are the same thing! lol!
#20 | POSTED BY YAV

I was actually wondering about that when he claimed we had discussed sanctions.

FishPawn is a ------- moron.

#22 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-31 02:26 PM | Reply

"We have seen sporadic threats by Trump to impose some kind of economic pressure on Russia but they never last long," said Giles, adding it would be a "radical departure" from his past approach towards the war if Trump were to impose pressure on Moscow, rather than on Kyiv.

"We do not know if this threat is empty, but the previous ones have been, and Putin knows that," Giles said.
www.aljazeera.com

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-31 02:30 PM | Reply

It was on Meet the Press yesterday idiot. I'm sure you didn't see it since it was most likely cartoon morning in your trailer.
#21 | POSTED BY FISHPAWN

Oh man. Sorry I didn't watch your favorite morning talk show.

Let me guess. You follow it up with the gals on the view?

Trump's bark is worse than his bite.

Unfortunately, you idiots love big talk no action.

#24 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-03-31 02:31 PM | Reply

The fine 'ol solution is to eliminate anyone born to speak Russian.

#25 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-31 02:47 PM | Reply

"The United States and the rest of Europe...

hol' up..

#26 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-31 02:50 PM | Reply

#25. We can all agree that Truman's biggest mistake was not using America's nuclear monopoly to vaporize Russia in 1945.
The world would be a safer, better and richer place if he had.

#27 | Posted by northguy3 at 2025-03-31 04:02 PM | Reply

Shouldn't the Headline read: Future ex-Republican?

#28 | Posted by Corky at 2025-03-31 04:07 PM | Reply

Trumpf wants to bomb Iran to please Bibi Netanyahu, Muhammad Bin Salman, and America's legion of Islamophobes, but Iran is a crucial ally and trading partner of Russia, so Putin won't like that. Trumpf is beholden to Putin and must please his KGB handler. So, how does Trumpf square this circle? A kabuki dance and humble-mumble-chumble answers from the Dotard at press conferences. The net result will be what Putin wants for Ukraine and limited strikes on Iran. Meanwhile Dotard Trumpf and USSECSTATE Marco Rubio won't say a darned thing about the mass slaughter in Gaza or the unwarranted fascist arrest of Erdogan's political rival in Turkiye. An EU delegation met with Ekrem Imamoglu in an Istanbul prison cell: www.euronews.com

#29 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-03-31 04:20 PM | Reply

#27
"We can all agree..

yeah, NO we can't

But the idea of backstabbing an ally says more about the stabber than the stabbee.

#30 | Posted by itchyp at 2025-03-31 04:28 PM | Reply

Unlike Biden Trump will tariff the hell out of Russia.

I got a few questions on that. Let's start with the basic one, first:
Who pays those tariffs?

Posted by YAV at 2025-03-31 10:57 AM | Repl

The most significant US import from Russia is fertilizer. Nothing like a 1-2 punch to farmers...making their crops less desirable to foreign purchasers AND increasing their costs.

The business jenius already wants socialism payments to the farmers to compensate them for the tariffs and lost sales to USAID.

Soooooo much winning

#31 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-01 08:49 AM | Reply

Future ex-Republican?

RINO

#32 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-01 08:50 AM | Reply