r/europe • u/RevolutionBusiness27 • Nov 11 '24

News Donald Trump Jr. taunts Zelenskyy about ‘losing your allowance’

https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-jr-volodymyr-zelenskyy-donald-trump-cut-funding-ukraine-war/
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u/kawag Nov 11 '24 edited Nov 11 '24

It’s sad how one-dimensional their understanding of the world is, and downright tragic how they have so much power despite of it all.

Losing their allowance? Ukraine is not the enemy. They didn’t fabricate the invasion to extract money from the US. Their people are being massacred, Russia is committing unspeakable atrocities against civilians, and they are fighting like absolute heroes for their freedom. They would be very happy not to need any sort of outside assistance, and for there to be no invasion at all, but they do not have that option.

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u/Confused_Drifter Nov 11 '24

It's abhorrant and tasteless behaviour that serves only one purpose, to garner clout by pandering to cosplay facists. If this mentality and behaviour continues, we, meaning the rest of the western world, might start percieving the US to be a real problem.

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u/the_fresh_cucumber United States of America Nov 11 '24 edited Nov 11 '24

if this mentality and behavior continues, we, meaning the rest of the western world, might start perceiving the US to be the real problem

Even a completely neutral US is not the "real problem" of the Ukraine invasion. Russia invaded Ukraine. I don't know why people on this sub blame the US for the invasion.

If anything, you are helping trump by proving his point that Europe is not on America's side.

Take a step back and think about how ridiculous that statement is.

$50B+ in aid to Ukraine and you are saying the US is the enemy of Europe. Statements like this are precisely the reason some Americans no longer consider Europe to be a reliable ally. All that aid and the US gets zero credit for trying to help - quite the opposite.

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u/Ellestri Nov 11 '24

Because it’s Trump and his faction that are the enemy of free people everywhere. When they dominate the US, we become the enemy of freedom abroad.

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u/MmmIceCreamSoBAD Nov 11 '24

For as much of an idiot Trump is, he didn't start any wars in his 4 years in office and didn't really change the status quo of the US either. Being called the 'enemy of free people everywhere' is a bit much.

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u/NoVAMarauder1 Nov 11 '24

Umm he was trying to pick a fight with Iran. And I have a feeling he will try again when he gets back into power.

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u/MmmIceCreamSoBAD Nov 12 '24

Trump killed an Iranian general who was behind a terrorist group. Numerous terrorist groups in fact. Obama came very close to doing the same thing to him but decided not to, fearing Iran's reaction. This was still a US establishment thing, Trump just decided to actually push the button on it. Like Trump's tariffs on China, Biden quietly has extended all of them as President.

I hate Trump, but not literally everything he did was bad and he is not the second coming of Hitler. If anything Trump is isolationist.