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U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered a suspension of all military aid to Ukraine, escalating pressure on President Volodymyr Zelensky mere days after a heated exchange in the Oval Office cast doubt on U.S. support for Kyiv.

A senior Defense Department official told Bloomberg that all U.S. military assistance to Ukraine is on hold until Trump determines that Ukrainian leaders are making a genuine effort toward peace.

The pause affects not only future aid but also weapons already in transit, including shipments on aircraft and ships, as well as equipment awaiting transfer in Poland.

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Edit: changed source from Bloomberg to Kyiv Independent b/c there's no paywall and more detail in the story.

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[–] [email protected] 142 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (8 children)

Is there a historical precedent for punishing the defender for daring to successfully resist invasion by a third country?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Economic sanctions on the early RSFSR after the Bolsheviks defeated the English, French, Italian, USA coalition that invaded them in the Russian Civil War.

[–] [email protected] 93 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Does it matter at all? Trump is compromised and is actively working for Putin. This is transparent and not being denied. Is there precedent for a puppet to do whatever he's told by his master? Yes, lots.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Let's be very clear, it's not just Trump, but the ENTIRE GOD DAMN administration that has been, and is, being put into place. Hegseth already told our intelligence teams to stop looking into Russia.

If Trump was luigied tomorrow, an entire government is now in place to allow whatever they want to happen, to happen. It wouldn't even matter if he was gone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

I think a lot of the problems with the current administration wouldn't change if Trump was Luigied. Dismantling our federal institutions, consolidating power in the executive branch, stripping away human rights - all those things would continue.

However, I think that the support for Putin nearly exclusively comes from Trump himself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It is being denied. Had some chud on here mocking me the other day (at about a 4th grade writing level) for saying as much.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Palestine. Maybe not successfully, but note that the idea that Palestinians have the same natural right to armed self defense as any other group is completely absent from mainstream political discourse. Most simply cannot even comprehend that the Palestinians should have just as much right to kill to defend themselves as Israelis do. Partly this is due to colonialism. Part of it is classism. The violence of the Israelis is clean and high tech. The violence of the Palestinians is crude and performed with simple weapons. We judge the morality of violence based upon the wealth of the people committing the violence.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

No, you don't get it. These Palestinian kids are brainwashed from birth to hate Israel and the Jewish peoples. They have school books that teach them to hate Israelis and Israel.

/s but sadly not because the above is something I literally heard around me for years. I believed it until I met someone from Palestine who explained yes those books do exist and they are called history books.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

The peace agreement between Napoleon and Austria included Napoleon taking independent (but in the coalition) Venice.

It was kind of an awful elitist place but it was also the oldest democracy in the world at the time. Napoleon destroyed that, and all the monestaries. You can see the ruins of them around the lagoon if you visit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago

Finland had to accept responsibility for being invaded by Russia. Also, they had to give away land mass that Russia failed to grab. Also, they had to give up some sovereignty. Also, they had to pay ginormous reparations and sign deals to buy army stuff from Russia.

Nice army stuff, though. I've been in a 1995 KRAZ with a wood frame for the driver. Also they don't have a tap for draining motor oil, because who would expect them yo return from the frontlines?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

Yeah that shit happens all the time throughout history, actually. Especially when colonized countries dared to fight back against colonizers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 22 hours ago

Is it a third country if the one punishing is a proxy of said country?