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Monday, July 07, 2025

Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.

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-- Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum.bsky.social) Jul 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM

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"Add all of these things together," writes Applebaum, "and they are something more than just a pattern."

They are a set of incentives that help persuade Putin to keep fighting. Sanctions are disappearing, weapons are diminishing, counterpropaganda is harder to hear. All of that will encourage Putin to go further"not just to try to defeat Ukraine but to divide Europe, mortally damage NATO, and reduce the power and influence of the United States around the world.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-07 05:50 AM | Reply

Putin intimidated the bejayzus out of Fat Boy Naranjo behind closed doors in Helsinki, and the failed casino magnate has been shaking ever since.

#2 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-07 05:52 AM | Reply

#1: The NATO Secretary-General publicly commented that he wouldn't be surprised if China invaded Taiwan while NATO was busy defending Europe from Russian distractions or even invasion in the near future. Both Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are acutely aware that Dummkopf Trumpf's term ends on 20 Jan 2029.

Link: www.independent.co.uk

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 06:00 AM | Reply

The U.S. Is Switching Sides

Shocking that Putin's Beach swallows, exactly as we all knew he would, for the Savvy Genius.

And the only switching is by the GOP that discovered how much it loves Russia and hates the FBI, right around the time that a Corrupt Orange Ball of Pus became its leader.

#4 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-07 09:53 AM | Reply

Maybe Der Dotard is going for the Nobel Peace Prize for Gaza and the Nobel War Prize for Ukraine...

#5 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-07 11:56 AM | Reply

@#1 ... They are a set of incentives that help persuade Putin to keep fighting. Sanctions are disappearing, weapons are diminishing, counterpropaganda is harder to hear. All of that will encourage Putin to go further"not just to try to defeat Ukraine but to divide Europe, ...

Yup.

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-07 12:03 PM | Reply

Maybe?

Thesis not Proved.

Putin does seem to Rattle and Intimidate Trump.

Collusion?

Not Clear.

Trump could just be out of his Depth and hate NATO for his Own reasons.

Many People Do.

#7 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-07-07 03:48 PM | Reply

www.politico.eu

Putin castrated Reek in Helsinki.

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-07 03:51 PM | Reply

Krasnov

#9 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-07 06:45 PM | Reply

#9: Hi Hamburglar: Do you know why supposedly the Russian KGB would give Dummkopf Trumpf the codename Krasnov?

alchetron.com

Pyotr Krasnov was a famous Russian general who fought against the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. In Russia, the name Pyotr Krasnov is akin to Benedict Arnold for us in America.

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 07:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Re: #10 Howdy Coriolanus

Yeah I don't necessarily believe the theory, but he's certainly been doing great things for Putin

#11 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-07 07:50 PM | Reply

#11: Hi Hamburglar: There are many of us who suspect Dummkopf Trumpf of being an asset for the Kremlin. I am one of them. I also suspect the Orange Putrid Dotard was a Confidential Informant for the FBI in the 1980s, along with Felix Satyr. The two would cough up an occasional Russian mobster or expose a KGB agent and be allowed to continue grifting and pilfering NYC. This is why Trumpf said "OMG, I'm fkkked!" when he heard that Robert Mueller was appointed Special Counsel to investigate him. Robert Mueller knows all the Russian and Italian mob connections with real estate and construction, as well as the KGB connections, money laundering, and confidential informants.

link: slate.com

#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 08:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

We elected a Jim Jones wildly dysfunctional patriarch to run our American family, and so we have found ourselves on the same dark path as he...he will alienate our friends and neighbors so we have no way to oppose him.

#13 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-07-08 07:43 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#13: You said it. The novel and the first film version of The Stand were excellent and almost prophetic: static1.srcdn.com

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-08 08:06 AM | Reply

re: #14 C0ri0lanus

Oooh, Stephen King, I'll need to add this one to the queue as well!

#15 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-07-08 08:32 AM | Reply

#15: Hi Hamburglar: I was not a Stephen King reader for decades. Then I spotted The Stand in our condo library and gave him a shot. I enjoyed it. Mr King is a story-teller. Misery was a fine read and so was The Dead Zone. Now I'm looking for Thinner and Pet Sematary. Stephen King said that he himself couldn't read Pet Sematary for months out of fright.

If you like laughing one minute after you read a line, try any Jeeves and Wooster stories by P.G. Wodehouse.

#16 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-08 09:00 AM | Reply

"Both Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are acutely aware that Dummkopf Trumpf's term ends on 20 Jan 2029."

I'm just hoping the God damned traitor knows that too!

#17 | Posted by danni at 2025-07-08 10:35 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Now that Trump got Putin to promise not to release his copy of the Epstein tapes and files, it makes sense that in Return, Trump has change sides.

But Trump has to pretend that he hasn't so he still publicly supports Ukraine

#18 | Posted by prius04 at 2025-07-08 11:13 AM | Reply

No, we are still on the side of Biden. Biden didn't want the war and neither does Trump. Neither could find a solution. Yet, here we are, liberals taking any chance they can get to be hypocrites.

Just like Biden promising during his first campaign that he will solve covid immediately, America didn't just change sides just because it got worse instead of better. If we could get rid of partisan stupidity in this country, half of our problems would immediately go away.

#19 | Posted by humtake at 2025-07-08 11:55 AM | Reply

When's the last time you worried about catching covid, Humtake?

#20 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-07-08 12:42 PM | Reply

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