Irrelevant. US will stop the funding and Ukraine will accept they lost the war soon.
Good! Geopolitical Consequences For Deep State’s USAID Chickens Finally Come Home to Roost
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Even before DOGE blew the lid off of USAID’s sleazy bankrolling of transgressive social engineering projects from Ireland to Zimbabwe, anyone with common sense who pays a modicum of attention to international affairs already knew what was up. Now, we have all the proof we could ever want — and so do the nation-states victimized by the brutal neo-liberal machine.
Russia got hip to the USAID scam relatively early on, expelling the “pro-democracy” (regime change) agency in Obama’s first term. Other countries at the time may have liked to follow suit, but they weren’t in the same advantageous economic or geopolitical position to rebuke the United States, lest their governments fall prey to the Pro-Democracy™ treatment themselves.
That dam has broken. Via The Guardian (emphasis added):
In Hungary, the Trump-allied prime minister, Viktor Orbán – fresh from December meetings with Trump and Elon Musk – celebrated what he termed the end of “globalist Soros” organizations.
El Salvador’s leader, Nayib Bukele, joined in, accusing the agency of funding “opposition groups, NGOs with political agendas and destabilizing movements”.
In Belarus, that country’s president, Alexander Lukashenko, framed Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze as a response to his calls for a “reset” of bilateral relations.
Nicaragua’s state media, controlled by the family of the president, Daniel Ortega, declared that “Trump turned off the faucet” for what they labeled “terrorists”.
Venezuela’s interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, announced plans to investigate the agency, alleging that the “primary elections of the Venezuelan opposition were paid by the USAid”.
And in Azerbaijan, authorities had already pre-emptively refused to renew their cooperation agreement, explicitly challenging the agency’s political motivations.”
More and more nations will begin to follow suit disbanding USAID neo-liberal regime change operations long into the future.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2025-02-17/geopolitical-consequences-deep-states-usaid-chickens-come-home-roost
It' shouldn't be a ground war, just find where the drugs, weapons and gang members are, and bomb them from the air. No need to risk lives of troops!
Trump can indeed go and visit, and I think he SHOULD and bring Musk and his team there, livestream it!!!
That was filmed last year. I wonder if any of them are still alive today?
Too bad? So what? We knew Russia would take the Donbas region. It's no secret.
Would be nice!!!!
Green Goblin Abruptly Cancels Planned Saudi Visit After Being Sidelined From US-Russia Talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Tuesday he is cancelling his scheduled state visit to Saudi Arabia following the conclusion of US-Russia talks there.
He's been on a Middle East diplomatic tour to gain support for his country now three years in to the Russia-Ukraine war, which took him to the UAE, Turkey, and Wednesday he was supposed to be in Saudi Arabia to meet with the kingdom's leadership. The Saudi trip had been planned before it was known that the US-Russia talks would take place.
"Zelensky CANCELLING trip to Saudi Arabia following US/Russia talks. Zelensky will now return to Kyiv from Ankara, Turkey," Fox News has reported. He now says he plans to visit in March. Zelensky is clearly trying to lash out at Washington.
Without doubt this is to signal his anger about being cut out of talks toward ending the Ukraine war. The Kremlin hailed Tuesday's four-and-half hour meeting in Riyadh, with Rubio leading the US side and Lavrov leading the Moscow delegation, as "successful". European officials were also noticeably absent from the meeting, which was hosted and mediated by the Saudi government.
Zelensky had issued a prior warning while in the UAE: "Ukraine will not accept. Ukraine knew nothing about this. And Ukraine regards any negotiations about Ukraine without Ukraine as having no results," he had said.
The US and Russian sides have vowed to continue the peace negotiations going, hopefully leading to a face-to-face meeting between Presidents Putin and Trump.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the Riyadh meeting issued a statement revealing an agreement for election to be held in Ukraine, which Zelensky certainly isn't going to like (and probably won't agree to), given also he just recently argued that martial law prevents this.
But Putin has said negotiations with Ukraine remain a non-starter so long as Zelensky refuses to hold elections. The Russian leader has said this makes him 'illegitimate' and thus he can't legally sign any peace terms.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-abruptly-cancels-planned-saudi-visit-after-being-sidelined-us-russia-talks
I kinda agree with that idea, yes. But how do you get the food delivered to all those people? Might as well make a law that you can't use food stamps for anything but actual food. That way no lotto tickets, no cigarettes/cigars, no booze, no video games or other entertainment/junk. Food stamps just for food!
I like booze and can't smoke cannabis anon. THC makes me legit paranoid schizo. I can drink a ton of booze and ironically feel good from it. I don't even get hangovers, not even if I knock back a whole bottle of whiskey in one night.
Sounds like a good idea, basically food stamps for food only. Gotta still have the stamps to prove you need the food though ;)
I'm here for reading news and posting news, namefags and spam gets ignored, and so do personal arguments :)
There are probably 6 or 7 others like me on this board. The rest either spam or argue about mundane shit. And that red text spammer gets filtered, always.
‘Drunk’ Kamala Emerges on Broadway, Delivers Word Salads to Musical Cast
2024 Democrat presidential loser Kamala Harris emerged from political obscurity over the weekend to attend a few Broadway plays, with video after the performances showing her loose as a goose.
Harris stumbled onto the Studio 54 stage in New York on Saturday to greet the cast of “A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical,” as many on social media questioned whether she’d had a few too many drinks considering several word-salad statements.
“I don’t get out much these days,” she told the cast, eliciting laughter.
“Spirits tire, but cannot be defeated,” she said to another cast member in a video posted to X.
https://twitter.com/PatrioticApe/status/1891242517284200947
“When we think about these moments where we see things that are being taken, but also let’s see it, as you know, nature abhors a vacuum, so where there’s a vacancy let’s fill it” Harris also said.
“Let us know that the reality is that the progress of our nation has been about the expansion of rights, not the restriction of rights,” Biden’s defeated VP stated.
She continued: “We’re seeing a U-turn right now. For those rights to be maintained which means we have to be vigilant. It’s just the nature of it.”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/video-drunk-kamala-emerges-on-broadway-stage-deliversword-salads-to-musical-cast
ALERT! RINOs Are Trying To Pass Mandatory Digital ID To Post On Social Media!
While proponents argue these policies will help protect young users from harmful content and excessive screen time, they also accelerate the push toward mandatory digital ID systems that could undermine online anonymity. As governments and corporations increasingly require users to verify their identity to access platforms, the internet may shift toward a more monitored and controlled digital space, raising concerns about privacy and personal freedom.
If passed, the bill would prohibit algorithm-based content recommendations for minors unless a parent explicitly opts in. Additionally, it would block social media access for children between midnight and 6 a.m. and impose a daily usage limit of one hour. Tong emphasizes that parents must make an active decision regarding their child’s access to algorithms. “If an individual parent decides that they want their kid to have access to algorithms, that they can handle it, they can do that, but they have to affirmatively make that decision,” he explains, adding that the process must involve more than a simple click-through agreement.
Many social media platforms already claim to restrict access for users under 13, but enforcement is largely ineffective. While HB6857 acknowledges that any age verification requirements must be “commercially feasible,” Tong dismisses the idea that social media giants lack the resources to implement effective measures. “It’s up to these companies, which make trillions of dollars every year off of all of us, to figure out how to effectively age gate, verify the age of young people, and to verify parent consent,” he states. “We know that just putting a page up that says, ‘Are you 18 or not?’ and clicking ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ doesn’t do it. It’s not enough.”
Connecticut’s bill is part of a broader national trend pushing for tighter age verification rules, many of which rely on digital ID systems that could make anonymous online access increasingly difficult.
Nebraska’s LB383, the Parental Rights in Social Media Act, would require social media companies to implement “reasonable age verification” to block minors from accessing platforms unless a parent provides consent. According to Unicameral Update, acceptable verification methods would include digital IDs and third-party age authentication services, though these entities would be required to delete personal data after verification.
Despite assurances about data deletion, these laws raise concerns about how much personal information users will have to provide just to access everyday online services. Under LB383, minors could still create social media accounts—but only if their parents first verify their own age and submit a signed consent form. Attorney General Mike Hilgers sees social media engagement as a calculated business model, arguing, “These are not on-accident algorithms that are just sort of inadvertently bringing in children. These are by design because some of the most lucrative customers you can find in this area are children.”
Critics of digital ID expansion warn that once identity checks become standard, they could be applied beyond social media, gradually eroding the ability to browse the internet freely and anonymously.
This will most definitely cause many Americans to ABANDON social media platforms and services, and lead to more people using P2P and "Dark Web" services and platforms!
https://www.infowars.com/posts/connecticut-nebraska-utah-push-social-media-digital-id-laws
It would be a good idea for Americans to have multiple offline backups of all the media they wish to collect and have, as you never know when the internet might become too much a liability and digital prison to use.
I don't ever go online without using a VPN. How would this impact me if I lived in one of these States?