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Trump gave Europe three weeks to sign off on Ukraine "surrender": MEP (www.newsweek.com)
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Summary

A European Parliament member claimed that the U.S. gave Europe three weeks to agree on Ukraine's "surrender" terms or risk an American withdrawal from Europe.

Mika Aaltola made the claim on X, but provided no evidence. NBC News reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suggested a U.S. troop reduction in Europe.

Trump reportedly plans to cut 20,000 troops and demand greater NATO contributions. He has pushed for higher NATO defense spending.

Trump may meet with Putin soon, believing Russia holds the upper hand in negotiations.

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They can lie all they want. No trade means inflation. Inflation means markets crashing. It can't be stopped without spreading wealth oligarchs don't want to share with those in need. When people starve, they will murder rampantly to stay alive.

Most of the rich are smart enough to know they only stay rich if the people stay peaceful and mildly satiated. You don't want to lock yourself in with 250,000,000 starving people with guns.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    these billionaires have bunkers in NZ, they arnt staying here incase shit like this happens.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Point is they wouldn't let it happen. They'd stop it by throwing Trump and co under the bus and take their money and power to the next best thing. Which would likely be backing a stupid moderate Democrat and getting things "back to normal" as fast as possible

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You're talking about the negative results, but the important point is who is attributed as causing them or the reason behind them. If there's record inflation, I can imagine a situation where MAGAs believe it's for a good reason, or because woke caused it or something. Remember, people died with covid, in complete disbelief of it because of conservative spin.

    I'm hoping people wake up, but who knows how far we must fall before they do. Jan 6 and COVID I thought were those points. But here we are at depths unimaginable, and accelerating.

    In regards to oligarchs, look how bad things are in other countries. Russia is an example where people have less rights, freedoms and money than us yet they aren't rebelling. We can still reach that point sadly. I hope you're right that people wake up and become angry way before they point.

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