- Putin only got red carpet. No Applause.

Did that give you a sad face?

Here, perhaps this will help:

"AI Overview
Reports suggest that the overall number of deaths, including both civilians and military personnel, is significantly higher in the war in Ukraine compared to the conflict in Israel and Palestine."

Both are horrible, one is more horrible in deaths than the other.

Why, just this morning, so that it would be in the news when this parley in the WH started... Vlad bombed civilians in their apartment complex, killing 10, including a 1 and a half year old baby girl.

So, he got his grins for the day.

Money is speech now, and not only OUR Corporations and Oligarchs here have more speech than the People; but also other countries do because they own our politicians with their bribes.

None of this changes until corporations/media are forced to pay for financing the campaigns they currently get rich off of as a cost of doing bidness in this country, and the politicians are then only beholding to their voting constituents.

So, never.

... and furthermore, lol.... the laws that led to Citizens United were started by a Nixon appointed Justice in the late '70s, as the beginning of Oligarch payback to the country for forcing Nixon out of Office and the US out of Vietnam.

That really triggered them to make sure that democracy died by changing the Elections from who got the most votes to who paid the most for the votes and owned the politicians.

Last year, Elon got at least $300 million worth of votes. Not to mention the money spent by all of his friends.

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Why America Supports Israel | Richard Nixon on Nightline with Ted Koppel - January 7, 1992