I think the Ukraine scandal is both wider in scope and stupidity than anyone really understands right now. There's something I almost overread in the Trump-Zelensky phonecall: Trump asking Zelensky to find the email server "because people say it's in the ukraine." I have made fun of him in the past for insisting people "find" the physical server the emails were stored on, but apparently he really thinks that people somehow smuggled it to ukraine to store it in a warehouse somewhere - ark of the covenant style, and that it's important to find it and to strongly look at all the microchips and transistors... or does he think hacking means to literally hack the server out of the server room with a hatchet and make a run for it? The intensity of his stupidity is beyond comprehension. It is relentless, unending, overwhelming stupidity.
Ukraine has been in an ongoing military conflict with Russia for a long time and relies on US assistance to fight back encroaching russian tanks at their border. If Ukraine gets annexed by russia, it opens up a new era of russian expansionism. If Ukraine falls to russia, it opens up a path to mainland europe and for a military conflict of unprecedented scope. The military aid the US is providing is an insurance policy for the entire western world against russian oligarchy. It is not a charity. This money and military assistance has been appropriated by congress for a reason.
The removal from troops from Syria is a complete and utter clusterfuck. The US is already moving troops back in as of yesterday, in fear of Isis taking over oil fields after they left their only ally in the war against Isis to die, and declared Isis defeated. Trumps removal of the troops and abandoning of the Kurds has been another gift for Russia. I don't think there's a grand conspiracy, I just think Putin and Erdogan recognize Trump for the infantile moron that he is and know how to rub his belly the right way.
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