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#Nate_Vance took part in the battles for #Kupyansk, #Bakhmut, #Avdiivka, and #Pokrovsk.

When #Nate heard his cousin arguing with #Ukrainian President #Volodymyr_Zelensky in the #Oval_Office of the #White_House, he became angry.

"#JD is a good, smart guy. When he criticized aid to #Ukraine, I thought it was because he had to please a certain electorate, that it was a political game. But what they (#JD_Vance and #Donald_Trump - ed.) did with #Zelensky was an ambush with absolute bad faith,"

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@Richard_hoperestored @cbcnews #ChairmanHarper, the face of the rise in global fascism, still pulls the strings. He’s on the Board of Alimentation Couche-Tard, a global leader in the convenience sector, involved in #DoFo’s $225 million one-time payout to the Beer Store. He has a a $240K contract with Saskatchewan to boost international trade. His puppet #PP is BFF with Conservative #JamilJivani, BFF to with #JD Vance who backed Jamil’s campaign for protection of Cdn Christians.

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@Professor_Stevens I’m sure that’s true. But the demand to show gratitude only came out after #Zelensky’s comment. So if #JD’s anti-Biden tirade had been left at that, the outbreak might not have occurred.

#Vance and #Trump live for media attention. So injecting opposition during their moment was a bad idea.

Now, real statesmen would have just shrugged it off. Said ‘Thank, President, let’s discuss that very matter today’. Unfortunately the US doesn’t have that.

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FWIW I also don’t think it was orchestrated by #Russia, although it does benefit Kremlin. But picture the press conference just ending after #JD. It would have rightfully been considered a stupid comment, but just one more in a line of many stupid comments by the White House geniuses.

It’s also possible #Zelensky didn’t really care for the deal or plan to sign it. In that case it was not a mistake. But if there was any desire to sign a deal with #Trump, then it was lost in that moment.

I’ve repeatedly viewed the video and considered it some time. I think #Zelensky made a tactical blunder.

#JD #Vance was talking to the media, not Zelensky, on diplomacy. It was the often repeated anti-Biden nonsense that the pair seem stuck with for some weird reason. It didn’t need or deserve a response. Doing that was a mistake. We know how thin-skinned JD and #Trump are.

The pile-on that followed was utterly shameful. #Ukraine has my full support but they lost a deal in that moment.

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@VeroniqueB99

#GeoPol #WWIII #USpol #RUSpol #ChinaPol

Not necessarily:

#tRump is #Putler's client, but #Russia is fast becoming Xi"s client.

Even if not (yet,,) the 3 powers can easily claim there sphere's of influence.

#Europe got its final warning at the #MSC2025 2 weeks ago by #JD and seems to still he bungling it. Said differently, U don't see the #EU or the #UK switching to #WartimeProduction anytime soon.

As a researcher at the Munich military university said 2day: it isn"t...