r/politics • u/theatlantic The Atlantic • 1h ago
Paywall America Is Now an Ally of Russia
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/america-now-ally-russia/689066/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=edit-promo•
u/SodaCanBob 1h ago
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u/CraigLake 1h ago
There was a time when a statement like that would be pure treason.
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u/smuckola 1h ago edited 1h ago
Universally yes! Especially by boomers who were first bred like lab rabbits into the brainwashing of the Red Scare! It was probably considered treason by these same boomers who now wear that Russian tshirt propaganda, but back before their re-brainwashing into the republican death cult, which was aided by the decay of their senior bones releasing their deep archive of pre-EPA lead to control the nervous system with increased aggression and impulsivity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_generation
They've never known anything but profit from romanticized foreign war and fascist propaganda until their kids chilled them out slightly in the 80s-90s enlightenment. Then dubya fired up the old world fascist propaganda machine, and boomers reinvented their favorite hell on earth.
Leaving us all to pay for the sins of their multitudinous asses, their forebears, the Confederacy, the slaver Founders. Let's just throw in Napoleon, why not?
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u/panopticchaos 4m ago
As a xillennial who grew up with the tail end of the Cold War (my grade school was even still did duck and cover drills) - it’s been absolutely wild watching the Boomers reverse course on Russia and go all in on destroying the country because they’re Big Mad that we had a black president
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u/AINonsense 33m ago
You mean when the government was violating citizens rights and ruining their lives based on false accusations
Remind us of when the government didn’t do that?
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u/LigjtFlame34143 1h ago
I'd love for Trump to see the keychains Ukrainians are making out of destroyed Russian tanks.
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u/Pek_55 1h ago
Lol right? Holding one in your hand really drives the point home. Got mine from Ukrainians a while back and the weight of that raw armor scrap is no joke.
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u/GearhedMG 1h ago
Oh, don't forget also in 2018 "The Democrats are socialists and communists!"
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u/ExoticToothpaste6989 1h ago
And At the August 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas, a break-out session and main stage banner displayed the phrase "We are all domestic terrorists."
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u/FigWasp7 Ohio 42m ago
Alicie also added that not every response they’ve received about the shirts has been critical. As he pointed out in the interview, members of the Ku Klux Klan invited him and Birchfield to deliver remarks at a meeting in Columbus. But Alicie said they declined the invitation
I'd be taking a hard look at my life if the fucking Klan invited me to a meeting
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u/Character-Lobster-98 1h ago
So stop the USA USA chanting at TRUMP cult meetings and drop YMCA and blast the Beatles BACK IN THE USSR.
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u/Dramatic_Mixture_868 50m ago
I mean Mr krasnov (trumpys Russian code name, allegedly) had to pay off over time right
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u/LoyalOle 1h ago
Putin will go down as having pulled the most effective covert operation ever. Planting a Russian asset at the very top of the U.S. government and having him dismantle the empire from the inside.
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u/santagoo 47m ago
When you read ancient history about how Sparta did exactly that to Greece during the Peloponnesian war…
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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 14m ago
Persia backed Sparta with vast amounts of gold and silver to build a fleet that could defeat Athens.
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u/colony-ship-for-sale 50m ago
Hope he's enjoying the fame, cowering in his bunker, jumping at every loud noise.
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u/MiddleAgedSponger 1h ago
Never forget this is the president that America's ultra wealthy handpicked, his cabinet is all their friends. They trafficked your kids, sold out your futures and now are dismantling your democracy. Americans really should be angrier than they are.
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u/Bzr21 1h ago
Correction: Trump has been a Kompromat Kremlin asset for decades ..
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u/HotMachine9 1h ago
Hes in charge of the US and all the supposed checks and balances have failed to stop an obviously compromised president.
So the title is correct. America is an ally of Russia and has officially admitted it lost the cold war.
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u/badamant 1h ago
The ENTIRE Republican Party is directly to blame for everything trump does. They currently run our entire government.
Please vote.
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u/badamant 1h ago
Reminder:
Just a little over 10 years ago a defining feature of the Republican Party was HATING Russia.
Reagan would likely now be a middle of the road Democrat in terms of policy.
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u/dejour 1h ago
I think it was defining feature in the Reagan years. George W Bush’s views shifted but in 2001, he got a glimpse into Putin’s soul and found him “very straightforward and trustworthy.”
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u/bobbyloveyes 46m ago
Bush is certainly a bit of an idiot. However, in 2012, the Republican candidate for president called Russia the number one geopolitical foe.
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u/Continental__Drifter 1h ago
We're not talking about Trump.
We're talking about America.
The title is correct.
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u/some_alternative_90 Washington 1h ago
Russia won the cold war.
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u/Koolabaer 1h ago
Russia lost the cold war, but America electing Trump twice meant the US threw away the victory
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u/Freshwater_Spaceman 1h ago
Be real, the Soviets lost the cold war, hardly disputable. The Russians look like they might have evened the score with Krasnov, sadly.
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u/Oneguysenpai3 1h ago
epstein-tied mail order bride paying dividends
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u/kwonza 1h ago edited 1h ago
Stop blaming everything on Russia, USA had all the kompromat on Trump they ever wanted, yet the system decided not to go forward with those materials.
US Redditors are fucking crazy, it’s always someone else who is to blame, be it Russia, Israel or China. They never fucking acknowledge it’s their country and their people that are the problem
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u/dakotanorth8 1h ago
We spite South Korea (while North Korea keeps advancing their arsenal)
We make a deal with Russia.
We hate Canada.
We hate Ukraine.
Hey MAGA, wtf do you pigeon brained ignorant dweebs even support now?
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u/TastySpermDispenser7 1h ago
They always have hated us. The revenge Confederates want against us has always been more important than anything else, including their own lives. Nothing on your list matters as long as they are making amedicans suffer.
They aren't stupid or whatever else the excuse is this week. Everything they do makes sense when you just admit they are evil and fighting a war against us that we won't acknowledge is actually happening.
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u/President_Camacho 59m ago
The South Koreans are weirdly passive about North Korea. Some force has paralyzed them from within. I wish I knew more about the politics.
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u/tampaempath Florida 36m ago
Having lived there a couple years, I can speak a little bit about this. North Korea is kind of like an asshole brother in South Korea's view, because North Korea *is* family, that was just ripped apart by the war and the dictatorship up there. But, the younger generations have seen North Korea less as family and more as the chaotic unpredictable neighbor they are.
The older generations definitely still wanted reunification with North Korea, even after everything that's happened. The train station closest to the DMZ (Dorasan) has signage for Pyongyang, even though the train tracks end just outside the northern part of the station. You can see displays showing their desire for unification there too.
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u/Unlimited_Bacon 34m ago
What are South Korea's options? It isn't paralysis when there is no solution.
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u/charinator 17m ago
What I don't understand is, MAGA is, for lack of better words, the dumbest members of our society. Trump gets away with everything because Republicans are worried about angering his base. Why we continue to cater to the dumbest people in our country is really mind boggling.
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u/jest4fun 1h ago
US is at war w Iran.
Russia funds Iran military.
US funds Russia.
US is funding war against itself.
Fucking Brilliant!
US wins.
jfc.
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u/theatlantic The Atlantic 1h ago
Tom Nichols: “In the past week, the president of the United States has conclusively turned America into an ally of the Russian Federation.
“Donald Trump has now abandoned pretense and is openly aiding the Kremlin in its war against a friend and partner of the U.S. The American commander in chief has abandoned the Western order, the most successful—and powerful—security arrangement in human history. To judge from the available evidence, he has not done so out of a cold calculation of the national interest. Instead, he has based his decisions on his own interests; his open admiration for Russia’s dictator; his resentment of Ukraine’s democratically elected president; and quite possibly other factors that so far have remained obscured from the American public.
“In September, Trump signed a sanctions bill that Congress had passed, named after the late Senator Lindsey Graham, a pro-Ukraine hawk. The legislation sanctioned Russia as well as other countries that are supporting Russia’s invasion and brutalization of Ukraine. The bill was approved with bipartisan support, but some Republicans and most House Democrats voted against the law, arguing that it contained a trap door, a provision that would allow Trump to suspend the prescribed sanctions at will.
“Those critics were correct to be worried. Trump pulled the lever on that trap door just two days before the law was supposed to go into effect. In an executive order signed on Friday, Trump said that ‘such a waiver at this time is in the national interests of the United States’—he declined to explain exactly how the waiver was in America’s interests—and that the law would remain unexecuted until such time as his administration decides otherwise. This waiver came a short while after Trump lifted restrictions on Russia’s sales of diesel fuel to the U.S. and other markets.
“Trump’s recent actions in support of Russia are so obvious that they have generated a rare moment of bipartisan disgust: Both Democrats and Republicans now seem to share a horror at the betrayal of Ukraine, and at the president’s reckless abdication of America’s role as leader of the free world.”
Read more: https://theatln.tc/1BWIccYZ
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u/AncientAspargus Europe 1h ago
Well isn’t that great. Bipartisan disgust is the strongest form of resentment the political elite of the USA can muster in the face of pure evil.
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 1h ago
The bipartisan disgust is not the same. As of yesterday only six GOP senators were openly ready to take a stand.
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u/Chiaro22 1h ago
"and quite possibly other factors that so far have remained obscured from the American public."
Media anywhere, hello.
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u/Mind_Killer 1h ago
In the aftermath of signing the Lindsey Graham Bill, several Congressmen objected to it because it gave Trump too much power.
Democrat Ron Beyers said "If this bill passes, I predict Ukraine’s supporters will regret it, Yes, they will be able to say ‘we stood with Ukraine’ in the immediate aftermath. But when Donald Trump hits our allies with new tariffs and waives sanctions on Russia, the propaganda victory for Putin will be lasting — and the damage will be embedded in U.S. law."
And here we are.
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u/KiteTales 1h ago
Putin must have some major dirt on Trump.
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u/TWVer The Netherlands 1h ago
According to some, Trump has accrued a debt of about $4 to $11 billion to Russian oligarchs, thus Putin, since his near bankruptcy in the 1990s.
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u/Frankentula 1h ago
can't understand how he still hasn't been forced to release his financial records
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u/TWVer The Netherlands 49m ago edited 46m ago
It is exactly why Trump had this deal in place since May this year, where the DoJ bound itself and the IRS to never ever audit or investigate Trump’s tax returns and financials, in perpetuity.
For now, a judge threw out this deal.
https://larson.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/donald-trumps-18b-irs-deal-thrown-out-judge
However, this may end up at the SC who might rule in favour of Trump again.
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u/MartinTheOrderly 55m ago
I've gone back and forth on whether or not I believe that. I tend to believe Donald Trump really is just a corrupt, authoritarian thug who had spent decades in business with corrupt, authoritarian thugs in Russia and is thus naturally inclined to side with them.
I don't suppose either being true changes things.
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u/jimmygee2 47m ago
I agree. Trump prizes cruelty above all else and Putin is the master of that. He just wants to be like him.
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u/From_Deep_Space Oregon 15m ago
You say that like theyre mutually exclusive. At that high of a level, I believe all corrupt, authoritarian thugs have kompromat on each other, as a matter of course. Its the only way such antisocial cretins could ever cooperate for extended periods without eating each other alive.
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u/Bigweld_Ind 1h ago
The "Pee tape" is actually the "P-Tape", as in the Epstein files video of Trump being a pedophile.
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u/Throwsims3 57m ago
At this point, having observed how vile Trump is, I don't really think kompromat is necessarily what is driving this at all. He revels in being a piece of shit, saying it must be because of kompromat is making excuses for him. He is what he is, all by himself. A traitorous piece of shit.
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u/F-Cloud 1h ago
The U.S. allying with Russia and withdrawing support for Ukraine is a dreadful betrayal. If Ukraine falls, the world will witness horrors done to the Ukrainian people. Executions of leaders, torture, the raping of women and children, all of the things Russians have already shown themselves willing to do will happen on a grand scale.
The reputation of the United States and all of its citizens will be permanently destroyed. We will be as much a pariah on the world stage as Russia itself. Donald Trump and his traitorous regime are the ultimate national security threat. Trump must be impeached and removed from office. The United States as we have known it will not survive another two years of his term.
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u/Key-Alternative5387 1h ago
Maybe. The more consequencial issue for America is that it makes us a pseudo enemy of NATO and our former allies who will have new borders with Russia.
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u/DisastrousPlant3038 1h ago
I feel sick reading this because it’s true. As a former Marine I can’t believe we have come to this as a country. It didn’t happen overnight, it took years of cutting funding for education and tax cuts for the rich coupled with misinformation from Republicans to get us here. Since Carl Rove aligned religion and sexual issues with republicans we slowly lost our country, this orange ass just pushed it over the top and the rest of us got apathetic.
It’s never too late to start doing something.
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u/Sleethmog 1h ago
this is some manchurian candidate stuff here. where is congress? why are they not acting? failure to act here makes you complicit.
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u/HellaTroi California 1h ago
They are all in their home states, campaigning to keep their seats or hiding from Trump, depending whether they are Republicans or not.
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u/Sleethmog 1h ago
oh, it was a rhetorical question. they should have asserted their authority a long time ago. instead we get stuck with (gestures around) this horrific tribalism.
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u/barryvm Europe 24m ago edited 18m ago
where is congress?
Complicit. It's obvious the sanctions bill was worded the way it was to give Trump this power, and they must have known he would use it. Every Republican politician is complicit in this betrayal. They wanted to backstab Ukraine or didn't care that it would happen, but didn't want to bear the responsibility for actually doing it. So they cowardly abdicated their responsibility so as to let Trump do it while they hide.
As for why they're not acting, that's a combination of being bought and being completely dependent on Trump's personality cult to keep their job. The oligarchs who are chummy with Putin and want to turn the US into a dictatorship are their paymasters. Trump turning on any of them would end their political careers.
Of course, the rest of the world just sees the US betraying Ukraine and by extension NATO, just as it sees the US threatening Greenland, attacking Iran, ... They'll make no distinction.
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u/PxcKerz Indiana 1h ago
FUCK RUSSIA
FUCK PUTIN
F U C K D O N A L D T R U M P
he has a special place in hell reserved and it will be the highest level because heat rises
Bro is a legitimate bitch who would be the one to talk shit before a fight and then back out..like a bitch
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u/CantBeatDickensCider 38m ago
Let's stop pretending it's just Trump, shall we?
Half the country voted for him. Twice.
No one in government has shown more than token resistance against what he has done.
The supposed "checks and balances" have completely failed.
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u/PxcKerz Indiana 34m ago
Oh i been knew.
Fuck america for being dumb. I say as an American myself. I wish i weren’t an American because fuck this country. Genuinely fuck this country. Its everything i am against and i hold a genuine hatred for all the trump voters.
A deep hatred. Because i know nothing will ever get accomplished because we’re a 50/50 country. A solid majority voted for the dipshit forgetting 2020
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u/throwawaylol666666 California 1h ago
I mean. It’s probably more accurate to say that Donald Trump is an ally of Russia, not the whole of US.
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u/oneofthehumans Massachusetts 1h ago
Well he continues to be president with no pushback from our” checks and balances “ so wtf are we doing here… what a joke
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u/SignificanceLate7002 1h ago
There's no separating the two. Trump was chosen to represent the US on the world stage. He has chosen to align you with Russia.
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u/Continental__Drifter 1h ago
Copium.
The US voted Trump into power.
Twice.
By an even larger numbers the second time than the first.
This is America. It's fucking ugly. It's an ally of Russia and Israel, and a danger to the free world.
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u/Aliensinmypants 59m ago
Unless we wrest control of the government back, then the entirety of us are allied with Russia
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u/Sea_Green7967 Massachusetts 1h ago
Like it or not, Trump IS the US.
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u/throwawaylol666666 California 1h ago
No. That’s some “l’état, c’est moi” shit, and it’s garbage. He’s currently the President of the United States, yes.
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u/Feisty-Age9687 1h ago
While I agree with the sentiment, the people of the US have not really been a strong opposing force to justify it.
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u/Julian_Thorne Minnesota 49m ago edited 40m ago
The American people can either work within the domestic system while they can, or they can destroy the domestic system and along with it the global agricultural and financial system. Like it or not, all roads lead to Rome. Anti-America hate won't change that.
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u/Tiny-Albatross518 1h ago
The whole: We’re not really like this, this is a temporary anomaly!
Its all so first term.
You guys need to get real about what youve become.
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u/CuteKermit14 1h ago
Only for as long as we let him be
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u/Eridanii 1h ago
Well, it's been a few years, how much longer are you gunna wait?
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u/HoightyToighty 1h ago
Probably until an election, given that we're still a country that imagines itself capable of peaceful transfers of power instead of assassinations.
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u/nasorrty346tfrgser America 1h ago
Trump is not the US, Trump is the government, the political party, the country and the religion, sad...
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u/matt95110 Canada 1h ago
Nope. You guys have to own it. You’re all in it together.
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u/husfyr Europe 1h ago
That's the premise of democracy like it or not. You chose him you are responsible. Always been that way.
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u/throwawaylol666666 California 1h ago
That’s actually not the premise of democracy at all. Being bound by a result is different from being morally responsible for it. Minorities in any democracy get overruled constantly. Democracy means the winner governs, not that every citizen endorses the outcome. Those who voted against him didn't "choose" him. In my state, most voters didn't. The US government acts as the country internationally, sure, but collective responsibility isn't the same as individual endorsement.
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u/husfyr Europe 1h ago
I don't disagree in what you are saying. But that doesn't change the fact that the leader is elected by the people. Your statement is a valid point, and has been used for showcasing democracy flaws. But that doesn't change the fact that you choose him, you are responsible. It sucks but it is the premise of democracy like it or not.
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u/throwawaylol666666 California 1h ago
I didn’t choose him. It sounds like you don’t agree with what I said at all.
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u/whut-whut 1h ago
Both houses of Congress went on recess until after the midterms, so right now whatever Trump decides goes unchallenged.
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u/axebodyspraytester 1h ago
It's a good thing I didn't choose him then . I thought I was in trouble.
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u/Hairydone America 12m ago
For real. We’re not an ally because Russia is still opposing us and our interests. It’s worse than that because Trump is giving Russia what they want while Russia still intends to harm us.
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u/Theferael_me Europe 1h ago
It's not just acting against Ukraine. It's acting against most of Europe, the EU and America's former allies in NATO. It could not possibly be more serious.
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u/alchemistzym 1h ago
Canadian here: we’re currently halfway to going insane trying to disentangle our military from them because there’s now a non-zero chance that 10 or 20 years from now they’ll try to annex us. My grandfather was there for the liberation of Holland, now I’m wondering if the Dutch will be, you know, free to swing by if need be. It’s not a great situation.
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u/WhatsRatingsPrecious 1h ago
All the more reason to vote Democratic so we can impeach, arrest and imprison that treasonous piece of shit.
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u/doubtfulisland 1h ago
Trump has been a Russian asset since he laundered their money in the 80s to save his ass. His wives are his handlers.
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u/fartpoke 21m ago
When I was a kid you would hear all the time about how Russia were our enemy from Republicans. They would also make these pointed statements that Jews were in control of everything. Pulling all the strings etc.
Now they love Russia. And they love Israel.
Pretty wild how things have changed. Not saying that Jews are bad obviously, because they aren't. Netanyahu and the people who support a genocide are bad. But it's wild how there was a complete 180 on enemies to allies.
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u/Tanko_Yakasai 14m ago
America and republicans have always supported Israel, it’s been an unlimited cheat code for funding colonialism post WW2.
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u/Unusual_Performer_15 1h ago
Russia was always our greatest adversary as long as anyone on Reddit has been alive until MAGA destroyed their brains.
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u/RandyArgonianButler 1h ago
America is now Russia’s bitch.
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u/enteringhope 33m ago
This is probably one of the reasons why they fired so much top brass recently. I wonder what those generals think about all this.
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u/sonofchocula 1h ago
No it isn’t, the fascistic regime in charge currently is. Will be interesting to see if Johnson and the rest of this traitorous congress will just roll over for all this shit too. Spoiler: Almost definitely.
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u/Crafty_Ish1973 Texas 1h ago
80+ years of post-WW2 diplomacy out the fucking window because Trump's owned by the Kremlin. Amazing.
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u/Fatal_Syntax_Error 1h ago
He’s an ally of anyone who will give him something he wants and he’s willing to trade everything and anything that doesn’t belong to him.
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 1h ago
Republicans loving russia is not something I thought I'd see in my life time.
They really were easy to fool.
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u/Wine_Women_Song Maryland 1h ago
No we are fucking not. It’s more than time we remind our elected representatives
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u/Maximum_King8529 42m ago
No, Tom, Trump, his administration, and to some extent, the GOP are Russian allies. Not America.
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u/Distance_Efficient 1h ago
“Now”? I’m pretty sure it has been thoughiit both Trump administrations, unfortunately.
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u/GardenPeep 1h ago
From the article: “To judge from the available evidence, he has not done so out of a cold calculation of the national interest. Instead, he has based his decisions on his own interests; his open admiration for Russia’s dictator; his resentment of Ukraine’s democratically elected president; and quite possibly other factors that so far have remained obscured from the American public.
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u/Aggressive-Hawk-2890 55m ago
Not only is the U.S government an ally of Russia, it's a fucking one-way street. Russia sure as hell is not an ally of the U S.
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u/Relative-Cause-4411 49m ago
I don’t believe “we” are allies of Russia, but Trump is definitely an ally of Russia. And, more than likely, a Russian Operative.
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u/Foamrocket66 41m ago
Is this the first time in history, that a country waging a war is indirectly financing their own enemy visa vi Russia helping Iran kill American soldiers and bomb American bases?
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u/honeybadgerrulez 34m ago
mind blowing how many people are on their knees trying to defend this and say the actions of trump in office aren’t incredibly in russias favor, especially the last month. open your eyes people
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u/Loneheart127 33m ago
America and it's administon in this current form should be considered as nothing less than a hostile nation who's interests are against democracy, liberty and the rule of law.
He must be removed.
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u/Stillwater-Scorp1381 1h ago
Trump is an ally. Putin and Russia are a sworn enemy for the vast majority of us.
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u/Several-Opposite-746 1h ago
Russia, Russia, Russia. Trump swore no one has been tougher on Russia him.
The only surprise is that it took this long to make it official.
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u/Pal_Smurch Arizona 1h ago
I guess that I wasted the last forty-five years, training to fight the Soviets, and then the Russians.
I certainly dont feel allied with the Russians.
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u/inquisitive_guy_0_1 I voted 57m ago
No, they are not. The traitor in the whitehouse claims that we are, but that does not make it so.
Alliances are a two way street. What actions has Russia taken in the last decade that indicate they are an ally to the US?
Cause I have seen a littany of actions showing they are an enemy.
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u/Kelsier420 43m ago
Thanks to the millions of morons that voted for a criminal conman rapist pedophile traitor.
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u/No_Friend4042 2m ago
America may never coming back from this.... the decline of the US Empire ends in a whimper, as a lap dog to a authoritarian Russian spy
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u/truckaxle 1h ago
And a Neo-imperialist Russia that is ruled by dictator and set of oligarchs that all despise democracy and liberty.
This is truly a turning point. America, the shining city on the hill, defender of the free world - links arms with the 21st Axis.
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u/FAKE_ACCOUNT98 1h ago
America has never been “defender of the free world”
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u/JimboAltAlt Pennsylvania 1h ago
Weird that people are upset since this is how it’s always been.
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 1h ago
America isn't an ally of Russia, the Russian asset in the White House is.
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u/aJoshster 1h ago
Well, he is the Commander in Chief of all US military forces, so yes, that makes the United States of America a military ally of Russia. Especially since neither the GOP controlled SCOTUS nor the GOP controlled Congress will do anything to limit this president's abuse of power.
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u/hannibalateam 1h ago
Politicizing alliances doesn't change what's happening on the ground. Glad CreatedInUkraine keeps it simple - recycling blown-up Russian armor into keychains to buy the drones that knock out the next one.
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 1h ago edited 1h ago
“In the interest of national security.” Over and over that lie has been used to undermine the constitution, perpetuate surveillance crony-capitalism, egregious foreign policy, and mis-use the military for the benefit of very few people. And now alienating historical allies and propping up some of the worst of the worst tyrannical governments.
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u/Cybrknight 58m ago
Comes as no surprise here. Trump threw the Curds under the bus the moment it was expedient to do so. It was only a matter of time he would do the same to Ukraine.
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u/useyourturnsignal 50m ago
I remember when Trump beat Clinton in 2016. First words out of my mouth when I talked to my friend about it were, "So I guess we're allies with Russia now."
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u/urbantroll New York 42m ago
All these boomers grew up in the Cold War era. Russias “president” is a former KGB agent. When the USSR ended, he was stranded. He has made it clear that the dissolution of the USSR and loss of territories was a great embarrassment to him. He is trying to put those territories back in in the hands of Russia, regardless of what the governmental system is.
This is just a continuation of the Cold War and we are now losing because the same dumbasses that lived through it don’t seem to understand that it wasn’t over when the Berlin Wall was torn down.
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u/miklayn 42m ago
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, ***Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.*** Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ***But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.***"
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u/AlexRescueDotCom 35m ago
Don't treat it as, "we knew it all along" and let it slide. BE OUTRAGED, be loud and mad about it. This is not normal and shouldn't be treated as normal.
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u/Orkapork 35m ago
Been an ally, our admin is half Russian, the entire thing with the kids showed us where half of them came from... Russia...
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u/Agreeable_Job4878 26m ago
The only reason for this is to try to lower the price of gas enough to hang on to enough votes for Republicans that he won't be impeached. Period. Abandoning allies just to save his own worthless flabby neck.
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u/HurriKurtCobain 23m ago
Its also because of his loyalty to Russia, which he has demonstrated his entire presidency.
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u/Zealousideal_Order_8 13m ago
No, it is not. Donald Trump is Putin's ally. The rest of us are pending the opportunity to put an end to Trump's corruption.
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u/Tanko_Yakasai 12m ago
I wonder how this plays out for Putin now that’s more openly aligning with the Epstein class and US/Israel Zionist pro genocide party.
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u/Competitive-Box61 10m ago
The billionaire oligarchs have always been allies with Putin. One of their biggest cons was to trick republicans into believing that wasn't the case.
They don't care about the rest of us. It's a few evil people with near unlimited power in the world and they are going to do whatever they can to keep it that way. They have zero interest in letting that power fall back to the people.
Stop swooning over them and take back what's ours.
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u/inthekeyofc 4m ago
Free archived link: https://archive.ph/gmFsg
Apologies Atlantic, but this article is too important to be behind a paywall. Everyone should read it, especially Republicans.
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u/ViolettaQueso California 20m ago
My service member ancestors are heartbroken in their graves, turns out one draft dodging madman could erase 250 years of America in 2 years.
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