I probably forgot to check the box, but it would be good if there was a reminder that you will be logged out after a while, especially when you are in the editor.

I do not agree that it is obvious that the USA doesn’t care about Ukraine, to know this one must first clarify other things. Such as that it is clear that the USA wants Europe to take on greater responsibility. Sometimes the only way to get someone else to clean up/take care of things is to not do it oneself. And in that way, force Europe to take care of security. It is not individual European countries that do not want to take responsibility but it is a built-in problem where a single country, such as Hungary, can block decisions.

I don’t know if “smart” is the right epithet to gaslight his voters. However, he is certainly not alone in using this strategy in politics. This is one of the things I consider a negative on his record.

Furthermore, I believe this is part of a deliberate communication strategy. This strategy aims to make the media focus on irrelevant details and lose sight of the bigger picture. The strategy works excellently for this purpose. It successfully confuses the media from the more overarching issues while making his supporters view the media as “nitpickers.”

So, I’m not saying at all that I appreciate or like his approach to this. I don’t.

What I’m saying is that the media and critics are doing a terrible job in responding to his strategy in this area. And yes, because of that, maybe he is “smart” insofar as his strategy achieves the goals he is after.

As mentioned, he is far from alone in using gaslighting, but the media is not as keen on exposing all gaslighting to the same extent. For example, the claims in Swedish politics that longer sentences would not reduce recidivism in crimes have been put forward unchallenged for decades. Life imprisonment would quite obviously lead to a 0% recidivism rate, to highlight the absurdity of this claim.

Ended up in the wrong thread, but Russian losses are worth repeating! 

Yes, one might think he is smart when he manipulates the media and his supporters, and you can’t deny that he managed to become president for a second time despite dismal approval ratings last time.

But is that really the kind of person, with those exact qualities, that you want to see as president?
Someone who constantly lies about everything? Like now, when he has claimed several times recently that gasoline prices are below 2 USD in several places? Just to make people believe that prices haven’t risen?

When he goes out and says that energy will become so cheap in the USA that it will solve all economic problems within a year because it all depends on energy?

Exactly the same rhetoric he had before the election with the tariffs that were supposed to bring in trillions and trillions so that it would also solve all economic problems.

So, is he smart for lying about these things and deceiving everyone? Or is he perhaps so stupid that he believes it himself?

Regardless of whether it’s one or the other, I don’t think he’s the right man for the job.

One would have increased support to Ukraine from day one (already during Biden’s time) then the war would have already been over. If Trump had started from his day one, Russia would have been significantly weaker today even if they may not have been defeated yet.

Then the other countries would have been much easier to pick off.

But perhaps it is so that the US military superiority is mostly on paper, just as Europe has been poorly equipped so they simply do not dare to do anything other than to pussyfoot around.

Regardless, it is obvious that they don’t give a damn about Ukraine even if they see Russia (and China) as the end goal and that as a side effect hopefully will benefit Ukraine.

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Does it still happen often to you? The login should, as mentioned, last for 20-30 days if you have checked the remember me option. So it happens to me too on rare occasions.

We have about the same view on Trump. 

What I like about his politics revolves around the following:

• Energy and climate policy
• Ensuring women’s rights to their own spaces and sports
• Prohibiting gender-corrective treatment of children
• The ambition to secure the supply of critical raw materials and inputs
• Ensuring control over immigration
• Ensuring that diversity criteria do not override competence criteria in recruitments
• Addressing Europe’s lack of responsibility for its own security, both militarily and in terms of supply chains
• Pointing out how the USA lags behind globally in terms of outcomes/costs for education and healthcare

Regarding Greenland and other geopolitics, he is explicitly “America first.” This may be true even beneath the surface, but it may also be more about “oligarch first” beneath the surface. The latter is then the line that there is a kind of understanding with Putin, etc. I hold both of these possibilities in mind simultaneously and am of course not fond of an oligarch-first policy. Regardless, Europe must grow up and take responsibility for its own defense policy and energy policy. Our shortcomings in these areas are not Trump’s fault, and it is childish to get mad at him for pointing out these shortcomings.

Regarding, for example, Greenland, I have two thoughts in mind:

• America-first – it’s about the security of the USA on their northern flank where they feel that allies are not taking enough responsibility. In a possible final battle between Ukraine/Russia, the northern flank must be secured, and allies must for heaven’s sake pick up the ball at some damn point. Like.
• Oligarch-first – it’s about dividing the world into spheres of interest, and Greenland should be subjected to the USA’s sphere. Furthermore, natural resources should be distributed to affiliates based on loyalty to the king.

Still unclear to me whether point 1 or 2 applies. I will continue to try to interpret the coffee grounds for further signals.

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3 AFVs

61 Artillery systems

1 MLRS

2157 UAVs

281 Vehicles and Fuel tanks

1 Special equipment

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