I swear to fucking god, there is no purgatory that will atone Fukuyama for that fucking article.

“Met with Putin”? Really? “Excused killing of journalists”? You sure they weren’t Hamas? Hell, you list the nuclear forces treaty, even when you, yourself, recognize it was because of China, not Russia. Is that what qualifies you as Putin’s “pet dog”? Tangentially kinda sorta benefiting Russia while trying to spite China? If retreating from the stage is “allowing russia to Take a bigger Part”, then surely it’s also allowing China “to Take a bigger Part”. Is he China’s pet dog too? If Europe finally gets off it’s ass and starts doing shit, will it retroactively make him EU’s pet dog?

Not going out of your way to antagonize a foreign nation does not make you a sleeper agent. It’s actually remarkable that the ambient level of hatred for Russia is so high that any interaction that’s not immediately and deliberately hostile is met with vaguely homophobic jeering. The one point you list that is actually, genuinely, directly for Russia’s benefit is the G7 membership, and even then I’m not entirely convinced he didn’t do it to troll Rachel Maddow.

I see the proud tradition of drinking mercury concoctions is alive and well. I mean, not well, but…

…What is he doing? Like, seriously, what specifically? For all the hysteria both then and now, I can, off the top of my head, remember a few openly and directly pro-Israel moves from Trump’s last term, but not much on Russia.

I’m guessing it’ll die down a bit when he, you know, stops actually being president.

I wonder if you could make a fuse that could reliably distinguish the T-series from NATO box tanks by weight.

And would be correct. But if we’re planning a health system, and I keep insisting on bandaids but refuse to even talk about anything else, my proposal is a bait-and-switch. That’s the problem, not UBI/NIT, as a concept.

That’s under the assumption that you’re actually getting them to a doctor and not just slapping the bandaid on and calling it a day.

It means they, for some inexplicable reason, thought the pre-election “shut up about Biden” hivemind would survive perpetually.

Not just the French. De Gaulle personally.

I swear, Putin owes some of you people rent.

If it worked like that, everyone would have defederated .world cca December 2023.

Also, greed and stupidity. IIRC, his last beef with NATO was wanting the EU to pay the US for being a member, probably because he overheard someone talk about how Germany should spend more on the military and naturally assumed they meant American military.

I’m surprised the drone isn’t embedded into the wing.

“When riding a tiger, the hard part is the dismount.”

They absolutely do exist

We did, and it was equally ridiculous back then.

You don’t understand: I’m a good person, so when I want to do horrible things, that’s OK, because as a good person, I’ll only do horrible things to bad people.

Weird, I could’ve sworn this exact same joke about Musk when he bought twitter and did the same.

You can make the argument, but then you’d have to fence off at least 6 or 7 different “Egypts”. The precise division would depend on what point you’re trying to make.

The flip side, though, is that that implies you’d only ever draw the lines to make a point, which would mean the reply here isn’t “that’s not true”, but “So? What are you trying to say?”.

I mean, remember who was president 20 years ago?