Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has offered an olive branch to his US counterpart Donald Trump, describing their fiery Oval Office meeting last week as “regrettable”.

  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business
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    3 hours ago

    I have an endless amount of respect for ANYONE that’s willing to swallow their pride and do shit like this when it’s in the interests of other people, their country, or whatever.

    Takes an actual good human to go ‘fuck it, this guy is a complete piece of shit but I’m going to make nice because it’s what I need to do for others’.

    Can’t imagine Musk or Trump or JD doing that, ever.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      10 hours ago

      Ukraine has been gutted by the war and exists as little more than a NATO client-state. Zelenskyy doesn’t have any kind of choice, Trump knows it, and so they’ll capitulate to western capitalists because they think its preferable to capitulating to Russian capitalists.

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        46 minutes ago

        I think it’s vastly different than you’re selling it. He’s clearly playing anything he can to survive

        But if Europe started producing their own shit, that’s that. America will not hold that business as there will be no buyers and we’ll see a repeat of the world wars, weapon manufacturing pops up and within a decade those that embraced it and fill the necessary void will dominate the market. America managed to spin that play for a century and they’re selling that position away over the fool that is Trump

      • Nate Cox
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        9 hours ago

        They’re the same picture.

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          8 hours ago

          shrug Wish more people recognized it.

          But we’re drowning in “We’re The Good Ones” propaganda, from Kyiv to Tel Aviv.