Kremlin says US foreign policy now ‘aligns’ with Moscow’s vision

Who knew it would be easier to conquer America than it would be to conquer Ukraine...

People that can see and think for themselves.

Note: this excludes a massive portion of US citizens.
Russia first tried to conquer Ukraine through political meams, but his puppet was removed in 2014...

I wonder if this will mean the eventual removal of Trump by the people, then attempts from Russia at trying to take back Alaska within the chaos.
step one. let them do it for us

Honestly this is insane to me given the Trump crowd skews much older.

Literally the generation growing up in the Cold War, having evil Soviets ingrained in them from childhood, and now Russia being happy with our policies doesn't raise a red flag for them? Our President being pals with the ex-KGB Putin doesn't mean anything to them? Hello??

Let me tell you what I learned living around rednecks my entire life. They are the exact same as deer. They are dumb, they have no ability to have foresight, to think ahead or to plan. They just exist. My wife calls them NPCs. They go to work, breed constantly without thinking about money, drink beer, buy a truck and hate strangers. That's all they know how to do so anything that any republican says, is blindly followed. They also mostly believe they are good Christians regardless of their deeds as long as they go to church. Religious people are the most easily manipulated of us so this is right up their alley. They are taught to follow and not question. I'm very much sure that a large majority of them don't have inner voices or a concept of critical thinking. Just like deer, they just BE.
- Maybe a controversial take on Lemmy to defend religious people but here goes. I don't think it's fair to place the blame on these people. I think for the most part, they are doing the best they can with the skills and capacity they have. None of these people, who you are denigrating by comparing them to literal animals, are born terrible people.
  
  So ask yourself, who is to blame. Is it the fearful, working class person to the left of you in the store? Is it your neighbor who is fearful of transgender people because they don't understand them? Or perhaps the family down the road struggling to make ends meet and don't have the capacity understand the real cause of their struggle.
  
  Or is it the media culture that constantly instills fear and hate into them. And the church that no longer preaches godly values, but is instead filled with grifters and charlatans. The rednecks are not the cause of the US turmoil, they are not your enemy. What is the difference between a redneck and someone with a successful career? Opportunity. Care. Support. Anyone can be successful with support.
  
  It is the capital class that seeks to sow fear, hatred, and division because thats the only way they can retain power. A united working class is an existential threat to their existence. The "dumb rednecks" are vulnerable and hurting and they have been exploited. Place your hate where it is deserved, the ultra wealthy, who for decades have been allowed outsized influence to manipulate the people of the US.
- Hate to admit it, but you're spot on. I'll add, in a D&D sense, they're lawful good. They can't imagine breaking laws, nor bending them, are shocked that others do so. Hard to explain, but it's a thing I see IRL.
  
  And yes, values of "good" may differ, but they have a hard-core version of "good" they follow unerringly. They see no nuance in behavior or politics, only black and white, good and evil. They're like the annoying paladin in the group that fucks everything up over a moral stand.
  
  tl;dr: Religious rednecks are devils, atheist rednecks like me are demons.
It blows my mind. My family is all military in one branch or another, so they not only heard all the propaganda of the red scare but actually trained to fight Ivan…now they’re voting R and saying Moscow is right. Wtf happened to this timeline‽
- Same story for my family.
  
  I guess some people never learn from past mistakes.
- Roger Ailes happened. Mark Zuckerberg happened.
  
  Fox News and social media have rotted this country to the core.
The Republican brain just always does what it's told, believes what it's told, etc. It accepts whatever witches it's told to hate and hunt and it requires fear to operate. It doesn't care what it's afraid of or whether its targets are logical or coherent. It just operates on orders.
Everything has always been fake news and undrained swamps before new Jesus... Uh.. Trump.. came along /s
I feel like the number of old boomer types to young white 'alpha' males is a little bit more balanced now in his fan base. Rogan-raised boys don't understand or care about history.
I guess they like the red flag 🇷🇺
They grew up with the red scare and maybe they miss it. Sorta like after the fall of the USSR a lot of the older Russians missed the way things were under the old rulers.

With Zelenskyy saying the end of the war may be very far off, it looks like Ukraine is preparing to go ahead without US aid, rather than be pressured to give in to Russian ultimatums.

We'll see if he can hold out if/when we lift our sanctions on Russia and start allowing the transfer of everything they need to rebuild their military hardware. Or even worse, selling them our own weapons.
- I mean, whats the alternative? Unconditional surrender?
  
  As I see it, here's the 3 options:
  
  Bend the knee to trump, give up your resources, and keep your country with no security guarantee worth a damn, just to lose your country later. And not just the lack of credible security guarantees, but specifically agreeing to never join the one alliance that would give such a guarantee.
  
  Bend the knee to Putin, and just let Russia annex Ukraine fully, therefore avoiding a war in the unspecified future.
  
  Go at it with or without US support.
  
  If you were the leader of your country, how much of your land and resources would you give away in the pursuit of temporary peace, knowing that it is only temporary?
- I never had the U.S. switching sides on my bingo card. I thought at most they would stop providing aid and support. Trumps policies were very isolationist in his first term.
I don't know what the logistics are but how do we start a fundraiser for this man?

It would piss trump off...

It would show the rest of the world there are still sane people in America...

It probably wouldn't help much but if it's anywhere near successful it will probably make an impact... And force trump to actually help

Someone needs to do this...
- https://u24.gov.ua/
  
  How easy can it get...
- You know the saying, be the change and all that. If you think it's a good idea you should go for it. I don't know much about fundraising or web design but I would be willing to offer some kind of support, be it some time and energy or helpful resources/tools I am able to find for example. Maybe you can help in ways other than financially as well. We are the ones who need to do the things. The number of those willing to act and speak out against oppression and regression and the cults of ignorance and capitalism has been going down as a result of a concerted effort by very well funded groups and individuals. The sooner we act to pull folks out of the pipelines siloing them off into hateful ideologies (alt-right pipeline comes to mind for example) the sooner we can start the work, individually and interpersonally and otherwise, to end the cyclical perpetuation of harm forced upon us by the systems that we live under. Please feel free to reach out if you want support and resources for taking steps to make changes, and that offer is for anyone who is reading this and doesn't know where to start and is acting in good faith.
The ultimatums putin, erm I mean trump suggests is essentially completely surrendering to Russia (maybe with a brief ceasefire, to let Russian soldiers to regroup)
The most likely scenario is a combination of heavier weapons from the EU & UK plus the same printed weapons Myanmar rebels are using. There's a great episode of It Could Happen Here that covers how much 3D printers are being used there.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/how-to-build-a-revolution-myanmar-104249884/

Congrats, murica, you sure owned the libs

Confirming as a (non American) dirty immigrant LGBT lib, I have been owned.

It is our fucken duty to sabotage anything that tries to free the noose around Moscow's neck. If they want to lift the sanctions we should lift their necks from their shoulders. Fucking kidding me? Remember McCarthyism? This is fucking batshit insane.

Remember "Red Dawn", back when we thought that Russia would try to take over the US with military might?

What a masterclass in asymmetric warfare that they've managed it with a few well placed memes

Well placed memes? There has been a massive, concerted effort to disrupt US politicsl perception since the 2000s, and only succeeded because tech billionaires were willing to play ball.
- And they won on memes. Do you not see how social media influences us all? Hell, Mexican dude at work yesterday was talking about how Trump will lower our taxes. (He maybe makes $20 as a supervisor, I make $15 as a noob.) Imagine that. Really take a breath and think on it. Where did that idiot belief come from? Memes.
- It's crazy how people keep ignoring the troll issues and it's driving me insane.
  
  We know for a fact that there are ruzies going to office 9-5 to spread online propaganda and we kinda accept it as not a big deal? That's straight up terrorism and no one's talking about it.

Grand, just grand. Thousands of dead soldiers, women, and children and for what? For a dementia patient rapist asshole president puppet to just switch the US from a mildly so so hero country to a suspectable place that creates concentration camps and jails people in them permanently. OMG! And the Republicans are just thrilled to watch it all burn down. I don't understand. None of this even makes any sense at all. Hello! Nazi=bad remember? You hang nazis, you don't give them government offices!

US from a mildly so so hero country to a suspectable place that creates concentration camps and jails people in them permanently

Ok hold on a sec there, I agree these developments are awful but the US was never a hero country and has been illegally permanently jailing and torturing people for decades, besides all the couping democratically elected governments, murdering native people, not letting go of slavery, and so on and so on.

No, Putin has orchestrated the fall of the USA from a competent evil superpower to an incompetent evil large power.
- You know what? I agree. I guess what I meant to say was that the US stopped being too open about our evil doings. Usually we mask things...the war on drugs, the civil rights movement acceptance. The Vietnam war was much more out in the open. Shock and awe and fucking 20 years of combat in civilian cities and encampments. The USA hasn't really every been real nice. We just haven't been evil openly. But now we're doing it. We just had our coming out president. Hello world! You guessed it! We're evil!
- You don't understand that it has always been the hyper capitalist agenda, after Soviet fell since then Russia has chosen capitalism and now it's a super hyper capitalist union where corporations are worshipped as post human entities and is governed by their demonic rage fueled consumption that supports the exponential growth. It will always attack when exponential growth seems impossible and eat something new. Both superpowers are fully enslaved by these entities and no one person or even billionaire is its master. As soon as someone doesn't comply, the megacorp "restructures" and swaps out the used up humans replacing them with new human puppets that are oh so eager to prove they are loyal only to the growth and not to humanity. No one lasts. But the entity is timeless and has no other directive than to grow mercilessly and without compassion. It chooses only the most psychopathic humans to do its more important biddings. This is the model that has scientifically ruined the happiness and standards of living for anyone living in close proximity to the host state, and several orders of magnitude worse for the states that control the resources the entity requires. Where policy has made people improve in happiness and welfare, a complicated propaganda machine relentlessly works to entice the population that the capitalist model is prevailing. Its main weapon becomes apathy and subjugation via hypnosis, bathing the children and young adults minds in dopamine, creating an imbalance where the will to act or improve gets overshadowed by the immediate injections of entertainment at any time of leisure until they should work again in the morning. The megacorps needs humanity only to serve and reproduce in an orderly fashion while longing for the next flush of seratonin they are allowed. We seem to be unable to resist this most of us, some know intuitively we shouldn't because we get sick and die, but we have no biological mechanism to defend ourselves with, it's easy to hijack the mind of someone that is not struggling. A pacified mind is easy to abuse. But when struggles begin, if it doesn't happen in designated war zones, it's terrorism. Most men that cannot take this conveniently travel to the nearest proxy war and participate in slaying like minded boys and girls. The entities have since long ago been ascended to have more rights than humans, and their acolytes that keep it impervious are called lawyers and lobbyists, whose sole purpose is to secure the consumption of the planet so nothing can stop it. The most zealous and ruthless are promoted so they can feel responsible for the exponential infinite growth. It is the working class, the pacified masses, that are the biggest threat to them. When they decide to strike or boycott, they can topple entities in one stroke. Often the officers will abandon the entity and merge or plant new growths as the ecosystem is perfect for them right now.
It's truly evil shit.
- I think they carefully calculated when the sofa apathy had ripened into a fully paralysing inability to protest or act due to deep hypnosis. They don't need to be afraid. Nobody is reacting. They test what they can get away with and made this plan. The oligarchy has been installed now

So, funny story. I like to joke that I'm prescient.

In 3rd Grade, about the year 2000, I heard a news story about Vladimir Putin. This was long before I understood fuck and all about Jack and shit. I told my mom "that guy is pure evil." I remembered her telling me "Gotta give Russia a chance." I'm fairly certain she meant a "chance to remove him" now, but at the time I was like "ok, but he's clearly evil."

25 years later I remember that as my second premonition. I'm sure I heard something from someone about how he was behind the apartment bombing false flag and that's what connected it.

The first premonition was when I grabbed a pillow in the car and squeezed it about 20 seconds before my dad hit an ice patch in our car and spun out into a bridge wall. Again, I'm sure I just got frightened by the cold weather and being on the road for about an hour.

Unfortunately, none of it has been terribly useful. Although one time I had a dream where they had rib sandwiches as school, and if I went with the burger I would be disappointed because my friends were all talking about this crazy good sandwich they served at school. So I got the rib sandwich and it was amazing and they were right.

the ribwich is back!

Fuck this shit.

'MUЯIКAH!!

Ah yes, the White, Blue & Red.

That tends to happen when you have successfully installed your puppet as the president of the United States.

I don't think Putin is an idiot. If he does like what Trump is doing, why would he say it and potentially make things harder for him? Putin must know that quite a few Republicans (whether they have the spine to say it or not) are at least uneasy about "aligning" with Russia. So why?

Is it a "whatcha gonna do about it" sort of power move? Is he trying to delay these "peace talks" because he actually wants to end things with Ukraine while Trump is effectively holding Zelensky's arms behind his back?

No… like with Trump, his statements are for an internal audience.
Putin must know that quite a few Republicans (whether they have the spine to say it or not) are

Quite a few? Doubtful. Maybe 2? 3? If we're talking behind closed doors: maybe a handful more, but it doesn't really matter since they're all terrified of him, and would just resign instead of stand up to him about literally anything.

For Christ sake, Marco Rubio is looking like Trump just subtly showed him a photo of his secret love child that was under the cheesesteak he was eating from the restaurant in the photo, and made heavy implications.

But that's probably giving him too much credit to be honest.