The US also still sends quite a bit of aid to Ukraine despite Trump and his fellow criminals doing everything they can to sabotage it for Putin. No matter what Trump does, the fact remains that most people in the US are neutral to positive about Ukraine and see Trump’s blatant attempts to sabotage Ukraine as yet more proof of the fact that Trump is full of shit and Putin is his daddy.

I am not convinced Merz could get away with NOT giving Ukraine a ton of military help, I don’t think that is probably a politically tenable move in Germany if you want to form a majority coalition… so people like Merz undermine help in other ways that are less easy to pin on them negatively… like helping manufacture an architecture of military intel and personnel that makes it easy for rightwing elements of Germany to feed technology, doctrine and intelligence to russia or at least place it in places that are so easy for russia to get that it is basically a gift.

Because Merz and the far right in Germany are decidely on russia/Putin’s side?

What has Merz done as actions that demonstrate he actually wants Ukraine to win?

Kind of reminds me of how people breed and raise show dogs… and not in a good, normal well adjusted way.

Did Merz not get bullied enough as a kid or something?

How did he turn into a human ingrown toenail?

Why do I feel the need to give Merz a swirly so bad?

No and I didn’t mean to imply that if I did.

Lol you don’t think Merz and his rightwing coalition form an extremist rightwing threat?

The center right is hopeless to stop the far right even if they weren’t lying about wanting to rein them in.

Merz only leads to Trump like figures, so yeah Trump is worse, but that isn’t much consolation?

Does a rightwing extremist Germany with a powerful military seem like a good idea to you?

Germany HAS NOT impressed me with the way it has begun to wield this power.

Why would it be cooler for then?

Because they just became more illegal.

Do you honestly think they aren’t going to do that?

The best way to make cigarettes cool to kids is to make them fully illegal, this is a nonsense law unless you are trying to increase the amount of kids smoking cigarettes.

Don’t they agree on most things? Of course Merz must hate Trump for being loud and sloppy but aren’t their politics and policy goals entirely compatible?

What an idiot

With 117 M1A2 SEPv3 tanks delivered as of early 2026 and K2PL domestic production tooling underway at Bumar-Łabędy, Poland’s armoured transformation is moving from contract to capability. By 2030: approximately 900 tanks across three platforms — K2 Black Panther, M1 Abrams, and Leopard 2.

https://www.grosswald.org/polands-armor-surge-779-modern-tanks-by-end-of-2026/

Phobia?

Poland could smash russia in the face so hard it would shatter russia apart.

I would call it a practiced awareness not a phobia.

As someone living in the US let me emphatically say “Fuck you JD Vance”.

Disgusting

What if the reason was because the type of banana that was prominent when this trope became popular was different than the one that is popular now?

Not the most likely explanation but I wonder if people have considered it.

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Also, sidenote, not all Teslas are expensive?

Most people who are intelligent know that buying pretty much any other brand of EV is a better choice so I am sure you can get Teslas cheap right now.

Wow what a surprise it failed?!???

Don’t these obsessive rightwing projects of micromanagement expanded into a violent and pervasive state of control by overconfident vastly powerful men usually work out perfectly?

I am shocked!

They probably weren’t worshipping strength and productivity over everything else in their lives hard enough.

My personal armchair opinion is they should try it again but this time have less empathy for the weak and downtrodden who don’t fit into the plan. Then it will surely work! I know this because I am a rich and powerful businessman and that makes me less naive than everybody else.