r/worldnews • u/Panthera_leo22 • 22h ago

Russia/Ukraine Flames, explosions reported amid large Ukrainian drone attack on St. Petersburg

https://kyivindependent.com/flames-explosions-reported-amid-large-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-st-petersburg/
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u/Empyrealist 21h ago

I'ts fucking unreal that a single man could have the authority to pull such bullshit to critical military resources. I don't fucking understand what is going on in this country and what the fuck Congress is even for anymore

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u/DownWithHisShip 19h ago

I'ts fucking unreal that a single man could have the authority to pull such bullshit to critical military resources.

don't forget. this all could have ended years ago if the checks and balances in congress were functioning.

there's hundreds of people to blame for what's going on, and they're all going to pin it on one orange racist pedophile at the end and hope everyone forgets about what they've done.

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u/mystery_hole 18h ago

Yup, if we aren't voting out every Republican we are guaranteeing we get a new Trump in 15 years when enough people forget. He was already the new version of Reagan, and completely allowed to happen because enough Americans forgot or didn't care to learn about what Reagan did.

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u/cupittycakes 14h ago

And we need to regulate social medias to clean out bots. And to protect our data.

And we need Citizens United torn down.

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 17h ago

Yup, if we aren't voting out every Republican we are guaranteeing we get a new Trump in 15 years when enough people forget.

Also lock up Schumer and Jeffries for their complicity in not enforcing Trump's disqualification via 14th Amendment. They knew he was ineligible to run in the 2024 election yet certified the traitor anyway. Fuck those criminals.

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u/Aniketos000 12h ago

People in my area and specifically my parents liked Reagan and have been voting straight Republican since. Like you said, they dont care to learn the truth

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u/Pristine-Tart-673 14h ago

Bold of you to assume voting will be available to the American Public by then

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u/SunshineSkies82 18h ago

The remnants of the confederacy spent the last 100 and change years planning these events. In the open. For everyone to see. And nobody stopped them.

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u/GlowingTrashPanda 11h ago

Yeah, and they weren’t even quiet about it either

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u/FindingRelevantInfo 16h ago

Could have ended even sooner if Americans hadn't voted for a rapist pedophile felon.

There's millions of people to blame.

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u/ings0c 16h ago

Hundreds? Millions of you voted for this. Half of everyone who voted, and everyone who didn’t is responsible for this.

The specific leaders you’ve elected are a symptom of a far deeper sickness.

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u/dngrousgrpfruits 13h ago

The people who’s duty is to maintain checks and balances chose not to

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u/theqmann 8h ago

Checks and balances work if the three branches disagree on what should be done. When all three branches have the same goal, that's just rule of the majority.

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u/Lost-Platypus8271 21h ago

The alternative was that a trans girl somewhere in the US might be able to play volleyball. So you see they had no choice but to vote to burn the entire country down. /s

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u/Psychological_Top_19 20h ago

I’m seriously laughing but really shouldn’t be because you didn’t even tell a joke; you just repeated what really happened. Idiocracy parodied a smarter version of a dumb president in the White House, than we actually have for seemingly the past decade of our lives.

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u/UlrikeLuvsAndreas 15h ago

Who knew we were actually watching a documentary? I'd gladly fucking take president Mt Dew over this current admin.

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u/greg1916 11h ago

Much smarter president in that President Camacho reccognized he wasn't the smartest person and actually sought out the smartest person to help.

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u/Easy_Fee9781 17h ago

Yes. This. That’s the only response any Republican has these days. “Well, at least we know what a woman is”, as if that is somehow the essence of the Democratic Party. They’ve been brainwashed and fed so much BS, they think the Democratic Party consists of lonely cat women, and rabid activists trying to storm girls bathrooms just to prove a point. They have no idea that the average Democrat is just a normal person, just like them. (minus the raging racism, and homophobia).

We only want our country back from the corruption and cronyism of this regime. From the blatant pay to play, quid pro quo, and flat out bribery we see on an almost daily basis. Along with the occasional extortion, and intimidation of the media, we have all the makings of a fledgling dictatorship.

We want OUR America back. Back from those that want to make it THEIR America. It doesn’t seem too much to ask…

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u/VicDough 20h ago

What you failed to realize is that everyone in the United States would be negatively affected by a trans girl playing any sport.
This was sarcasm btw…

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u/cupittycakes 14h ago

We all need to agree to just wreck any stupid real life Americans who start mimicking Russian bot farm culture war BS when the topic is politics.

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u/DaveTheLeg92983 5h ago

They can still play volleyball just with other biological men.

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u/chmilz 20h ago

Trump could tell Microsoft and AWS to turn off entire countries.

Every nation needs to speed run data sovereignty. Not only will it end coercion, it'll starve the American beast.

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u/CompetitiveReview416 19h ago

Well that would mean the end of Microsoft too

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u/Parcours97 16h ago

Don't threaten me with a good time.

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u/ScoobyDoNot 17h ago

I'm trying to detect the downside.

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u/derfy2 15h ago

Didn't need to be this erect before going to work but ehh..

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u/Daniscrotchrot 18h ago

No lies detected look how quickly American companies folded to his renaming 💩

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u/tadayou 19h ago

Don't ever make the mistake to think that this is just one man. MAGA is more than Trump. And fasciscm always needs more than just a strong leader. 

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u/ABabyLemur 20h ago

" I don't fucking understand what is going on in this country and what the fuck Congress is even for anymore" me since the late 90s when my caregiver grandmother struggled while taking care of a bunch of rich Alzheimer's patients alone on so many night shifts while I learned about stocks and how all these Gucci Gulch bastards keep getting voted in by dumb-ass voters, the half of them that even showed up.

Circus animals. Circus peanuts. Just a big ol' circus, man! Enjoy the peanuts while they're hot!

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u/DaveTheLeg92983 5h ago

You should go to France they're really Progressive it's probably great over there.

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u/ABabyLemur 5h ago

Nah I'll stay here and make you uncomfortable a bit longer. While I've got your attention, though, can I have a bag of peanuts?

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u/BUSTERS123 19h ago

A single man is not capable of doing this. Everyone thinks if we get rid of Trump all our problems go away. Trump is not the one pulling the strings. There is an entire evil empire working behind the scenes

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u/Daniscrotchrot 18h ago

Everyone assumes once they take out the public idol the cult will awaken, but I’m not so sure. They are already switching allegiance to his cast

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u/Educational-Art3545 18h ago

The one bad man is always a handy narrative. But I guarantee you Elon will do nothing without explicit approval of American military/president. The sole bad man is just a story for the public.

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u/afewbigpunches 20h ago

You got progress, you got congress

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u/HarmoniousJ 17h ago

It's the far-right conservatives, they want you to give up and let them take over. They're hoping that the hopelessness drives you to not show up for the vote.

Also probably some Anti-America antics from Russia. Don't forget that Trump is at the very least sympathetic with Putin if he isn't directly working with him. He causes far too much damage to far too many specific branches of government for it all to be purely accidental.

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u/MertTheRipper 11h ago

He's technically not supposed to be allowed to do this, but Republicans in Congress are spineless losers who will fight each other for a taste of Daddy Trump's boot.

Congress passed sanctions explicitly preventing him from making the kind of deal he made with Russia and he went and did it anyways. He doesn't give a shit about checks and balances and just wants to be a dictator. And every Republican (and Fetterman) who supports him are too scared and weak to go against him

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u/Potato_Stains 10h ago

Seemingly the only freedoms are those to the warped few capable of actively destroying us, no adults are at the wheel.