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Trump Suspends Military Aid to Ukraine After Oval Office Blowup

www.nytimes.com Trump Suspends Military Aid to Ukraine After Oval Office Blowup

The directive, which takes effect immediately, affects more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition in the pipelines and on order.

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Should be “Trump Cuts Aid As Planned, Cites Fake Drama”
- NYT doesn't do real journalism anymore, they just report on the narrative.
The one that should get their military aid suspended is Israel.
- You tell him!
This is nothing new, this is what the US empire has been doing for a long long time now.

"The word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." -Henry Kissinger
What a toddler.
The question sounds like a joke because the laws are long dead, but isn't it illegal to do? Like, he's not supposed to be able to even do it.
- Congress has refused to do anything for a decade or so in an attempt to push more power to the executive branch.
- I still wonder how there is no big resistance already in US.. Maybe organisation needs some time?
  How can you just continue living while your country gets converted into a dictatorship?
  So strange
  
  Has something fundamentally changed?
  
  Sigh, where to begin. Maybe check back in 30-90 days after social security payments start coming up missing...By then they will either fight or die on the streets homeless. I am just young enough to survive working till I die like our feudal crypto overlords demand.
  
  The American public has been neutered.
  
  The water has been slowly boiling us alive and we are too scared to give up our fake liberties to do anything about it.
  
  Yes, we don't own anything any more, homeless rates are the highest we've seen in almost a decade, and most of us barely make enough to afford rent every month, but most americans are fine to be complicit with this as long as we get our endless supply of funko pops and doordash.
  
  The individualistic culture of the US has me seriously doubt any real forms of organizing, and if there ever would be one, it would be extremely easy for bad actors to fracture any unity movement.
  
  This is just from my perspective as an American who has seen my "friends", neighbors, and coworkers become more complicit every day.
  
  How can you just continue living while your country gets converted into a dictatorship?
  
  You do nothing, which is easy.
  
  At least half the population buys into the "fake news" shit about how Trump never did anything wrong and all of this is somehow making more jobs for Americans. I'm not kidding. I have this argument too often. I don't know what to do about it. It's so frustrating and depressing.
  
  When people are just miserable enough to not have energy to do anything esle but survive, but not miserable enough to have nothing to lose, they can't self-organise for shit, and that's a very exploitative human characteristic.
  
  Biden doubled child poverty with a penstroke and took 20 million people of medicaid but it takes trump halting the arming of a nazi army for petty reasons for you to wonder where the resistance is.
  
  Please go back to brunch.
He's still got the support of the entire rest of the world outside of facist USA and Russia.

Photo from London March 2nd 2025.
- entire rest of the world
  
  photo of some unelected ghouls mainly from western and northwest Europe
  
  I can't speak for all the officials there, but many of them very much have been directly elected
  
  The Norwegian one for example is the prime minister
  
  Hey now, you can’t forget the standing ovation for Yaroslav Hunka country
American alliances and soft power destroyed in a single month.

Thanks conservative traitors.
- lmao good
  
  death to ameriKKKa
- It's always adorable the way liberals try to 'no u' conservative hypernationalism. "Actually sir, you're the traitor!"
Ukraine can't have peace without security guarantees and Russia withdraws from all of its land since 2014. Russia must also pay reparations and be held accountable for war crimes.
- Well, given that most of that will never happen, I suppose Ukraine can't have peace then. Unfortunate for them that you have decided that.
- War crimes lol, war crimes like saving Donbas from mass murder by fanatic Ukrainian nationalists?
- Please tell me about Russian war crimes, aside from what you hear on western media.

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