If there is any good coming from this is that some movements to boycott the USA and focus on helping each other have started in Europe.

It's small but it's a great first step if it escalates, good for EU, bad for the USA, good for the entire world in the long run.

Can't be just a half-baked movement, governments need to step up otherwise it's only a long period of the poor getting even more fucked up by rising prices.

I'm sorry for all the people being directly affected by all this, specially those living the hell of being invaded.

They ought to start labelling all produce which comes from America in supermarkets so we know what to avoid, Lol.

It's definitely bad for the USA and it could be good for Europe in the long run but I think we've just taken a step closer to a war between Europe and Russia, the morons once again haven't learnt from history and how isolationism and rewarding expansionist empires doesn't stop expansionist empires from expanding, America was the biggest deterrent to Russia and now it is gone. We will see what happens next, at the very least, Moldova I'm almost certain is going to be invaded next if Ukraine falls.

I don't even want Europe to take over America's role as "World Police" I just want Europe to step up to the plate and do enough to protect Europe at this stage, I don't give a fuck about what America wants anymore, America can deal with China on their own, America can deal with the next Middle-East crisis on their own instead of running to us for help like they did after 9/11, the assholes have shown just how ungrateful they are.

Europe has the ability, it has the military, it has the economy, it only needs the political will to understand that its own its own now and it's time to defend itself, time to stop caring about what America wants to do, or what America thinks, time to become a bit patriotic about Europe at the detriment of America, that is buying Europe, investing in Europe, no more buying American military equipment, etc.

I hope financial aid is also pulled from Ukraine. This whole thing has been a disgrace if Zalensky had an ounce of shame he would have agreed to Istanbul deal and keep all of Ukraine and give up joining Nato.

Now it turns out Nato joining is Impossible so its a case of egg on face he's messed up and needs to go. It needs to be stopped immidiatly via ceasefire

Another one bites the dust!

Me when hearing about a Trump voter getting fucked by their own vote:

I’m so beyond giving two fucks about these people at this point. Again, their crocodile tears basically amounts to “I didn’t think the leopards would eat MY face”. Yeah, no, you voted for this clown because you wanted OTHER people to suffer, you don’t get to cry when the leopards eat your face, too. As this guy so eloquently explained:

Granted, the GOP will be hit hard by the 2026 midterms, but by then, the damage will be done and irreparable with the way things are going only a month in.

Graham Stuart, a former Foreign Office minister, issued the comment in response to Donald Trump’s decision to pause all military aid to Ukraine. The extraordinary move comes as the US administration seeks to pressure Volodymyr Zelenskyy to agree to an unconditional ceasefire with Russia.

Commenting on developments, Stuart posted to X: “We have to consider the possibility that president Trump is a Russian asset. 

“If so, Trump’s acquisition is the crowning achievement of [Vladimir] Putin’s FSB career — and Europe is on its own.”

The stance echoes the position advocated by Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat leader, who told the House of Commons on Monday that the UK needs to “reduce our dependency on the United States” as he fears “that president Trump is not a reliable ally with respect to Russia”.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has described the US president’s decision to pause aid to Ukraine as “profoundly worrying”. She said in a post on X: “It is clear that Britain and Europe must re-arm much faster if we want to provide Ukraine with more than just warm words of support. “We must work to keep America in, and Russia out.”

Senior Conservative MP Says UK Must Consider Possibility ‘Trump is a Russian Asset’ - Politics.co.uk

West Australian Premier Roger Cook on Tuesday called J.D. Vance a “knob” in an off-hand remark to business leaders, days after the US vice president played a central role in a White House meltdown with Ukraine and as Canberra tries to fend off US sanctions.

J.D. Vance Called a ‘Knob’ By Western Australian Premier Roger Cook

“If they want to try to annihilate Ontario, I will do everything — including cut off their energy with a smile on my face,” Ford told reporters at a mining convention in downtown Toronto, the Toronto Sun reported. “They rely on our energy. They need to feel the pain. They want to come at us hard, we’re going to come back twice as hard,” he said.

The Sun reported Ford said he would go dollar-for-dollar in matching tariffs: “That’s exactly what we’re going to do.” Ford suggested the federal and provincial governments are unified in their approach to fighting U.S. tariffs. “The provinces have a big say in it, but it’s the federal government that’s leading the charge, and we’re going to stand shoulder-to-shoulder no matter who’s in the federal government.

“I [didn’t] start this tariff war, but we’re going to win this tariff war,” Ford added.

Canadian Premier Says He Will Cut Off Electricity Exports To US ‘With a Smile On My Face’ | WNCT

Doug Ford is a twat but at this point...Pretty much need an asshole to fight an asshole. I doubt Canadians want to hurt Americans but at this stage it's either them or America and America is hurting them for such fucking bullshit reasons. I'm sure cutting energy would be a last resort but people largely won't start protesting until they start feeling hurt by Trump's actions.

For the better part of a century, America’s foreign policy has boiled down to this: We foot most of the bills and prevent bullies from rolling over weaker sovereign states. In return, we get a world that (mostly) behaves itself.

Trump, however, looks at this mutually beneficial deal and assumes he’s getting “scammed.” He views NATO like a group dinner where everyone else orders lobster, and he thinks he’s stuck with the bill. Why should we pay for security? Why should we defend our allies? Uh, because it keeps the world from becoming a flaming dumpster fire.

The alternative is far worse: Allies either rearm (including nukes) or they start making new, less-savory friends. Neither scenario ends well for the U.S.

But the biggest reason that abandoning our allies is dumb can be summed up in one word: China. You remember China, right? The country that sends us fentanyl and TikTok propaganda and outnumbers us four-to-one? Well, guess what — if the free world sticks together, we pretty much match them in population, land and strength. But only if we stick together.

Trump, the so-called greatest dealmaker, is out here making the worst deal in American history by giving away U.S. influence, alienating allies, gutting American soft power by dismantling foreign aid and handing power to the people who really want to screw us. Nothing says “America First” like leaving your friends dead last. And here’s the thing: It’s easy to fritter away our power, but it would be a decades-long struggle to regain influence once it’s gone.

Trump is Destroying U.S. Global Standing in a Matter of Weeks - Los Angeles Times

The suspension is “a major blow,” the official said, especially since planning for such operations takes time and research to carry out. The concern, the official said, is that the pause on offensive cyber operations against Russia will make the US more vulnerable to potential cyberattacks from Moscow, which has a formidable cadre of hackers capable of disrupting US critical infrastructure and collecting sensitive intelligence.

US Suspends Offensive Cyber Operations Against Russia, Senior US Official Says | CNN Politics

Russia won the Cold War and took over America without firing a single bullet.

I don't know if you're a naïve fool or simply a mindless drone repeating Russian propaganda, I've already banned you from the Russia-Ukraine thread because you kept popping your head in every few months, posting some utter bollocks and then diving out when people responded to you, because like Russia, you are a coward, you can't back up your opinions because you know supporting Russia makes you look like a sicko.

You "couldn't wait" for the West to abandon Ukraine and for Russia to slaughter them. Two years ago you also posted that "there's not much left to take to incorporate the 4 new regions" - How's that working on for you? You said that the war started because Ukraine was being mean to Russians in Ukraine. You have nothing to say except drive by Russian propaganda.

You hope financial aid is pulled, the same financial that goes towards helping innocent civilians.

The Istanbul deal? Lets look at that shall we.

The treaty would declare Ukraine to be allowed to apply for EU membership and to be a neutral state; put a limit on the size of its military forces; cease NATO membership plans; forbid foreign military bases; and list Russia and Western countries, among which were the US and the UK, as guarantors, obliged to assist Ukraine in case of aggression against it . The status of Crimea would have to be negotiated after 10 to 15 years

So basically, the Budapest Memorandum, which Russia was already a signature to, in which Ukraine surrendered their nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, America, UK and France. Oh look, that didn't work out did it? Russia broke it in 2014 and then again in 2022. So much for that security commitment.

Gee, I wonder why a country which has invaded multiple countries during Putin's leadership, including twice invading Ukraine territory, would want Ukraine to limit the size of its military force and be blocked from joining NATO after making a shitshow of the initial invasion which was intended to take at least up to Kyiv territory? Oh it couldn't possibly be so they can re-arm and try again at a later date!

Guarantors come to Ukraine's defence "on the basis of a decision agreed to by all guarantor states", thus giving Russia the possibility to veto a military response by the guarantors.

The draft agreement was never completed.

• Russia be treated as a neutral security “guarantor state” of Ukraine along with the other permanent members of the UN Security Council, repeating the premise of the Minsk II Accords that did not treat Russia as a belligerent in the war.
• Ukraine be forbidden to invite partner forces to conduct military exercises in Ukrainian territory, airspace, territorial waters, and exclusive economic zone without the consent of China and Russia.
• China and Russia have a veto over the mechanism for responding to future armed conflict in Ukraine by making China and Russia Ukraine’s security guarantors and granting the United Nations Security Council the authority to take “measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.” China and Russia are permanent members of the UNSC and can use their veto power to block responses to future Russian aggression under these conditions. 
• Ukraine lift all Ukrainian sanctions against Russia imposed since 2014 and withdraw criminal cases against Russia in the International Criminal Court for war crimes against Ukraine.
• Ukraine amend its constitution to remove the provision committing Ukraine to NATO membership and to add a neutrality provision that would ban Ukraine from joining any military alliances, concluding military agreements, or hosting foreign military personnel, trainers, or weapon systems in Ukraine.  Ukraine disarm almost completely and commit never to fielding a military capable of defending the country. The draft agreement specifically imposed the following caps on the Ukrainian Armed Forces

You can't be this dense to look and this and think of it as anything other than Russia ensuring a weakened Ukraine to make another attempt on them at a later date, as Russia has repeatedly done in the past (Hello Chechnya War, Crimea 2014 and Ukraine 2022). Ukraine gets to choose what alliances it joins as an independent state. Just like we don't have the right to slaughter Belarus for joining CSTO, Russia doesn't have the right to slaughter Ukraine for wanting to join NATO.

The Istanbul Deal was also severely impacted after Ukraine uncovered the Bucha massacre.

Russia has repeatedly stated they have no interest in a ceasefire and their maximalist goals have not changed.

Don't they do that already? I've been avoiding "product from the USA" for years. First to support local grown, then for being anti genocide. Now if there's something that's not locally grown I'll opt for "product from Mexico" or further South.

Anyway this was always the risk with a monopolistic world, where one country, the US and the US dollar rule the world. Plus the track record of the USA has never been great with supporting South Africa's apartheid, Vietnam mess, continuous fuckery in the ME.

Europe shouldn't take over as "world police", but does need to become a real balance next to the USA and BRICS. More trade in Euros and sadly also need a more modern integrated self supported army.

Letting China become the next world leader will sooner or later lead to the same results.

NEW: JD Vance describes UK & French troops in Ukraine as “20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”.

Spits in the face of UK & EU troops that died supporting the US in Iraq & Afghanistan.

So revealing. The Atlantic alliance & “special relationship” is dead.

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— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) 4 March 2025 at 08:52

“Some random country”. Beyond offensive.

Vance also desecrates the memory of US veterans who fought to defend these “randoms countries” in WWII.

Hard to imagine the US’s global standing could sink any further.

This will all cast a shadow long after Trump is dead & Vance is turfed from office

— News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) 4 March 2025 at 09:24

Lol. America can seriously go fuck itself.

Our troops died for nothing, only for America to spit in their faces and talk shit about us, the UK has been by America's side like a dog in practically every conflict they got involved in the for the past 40 years. The Gulf War, The War in Afghanistan, The Iraq War. Some of these wars for utter horseshit reasons but UK still stood by America afterwards.

America, still the only country to ever invoke Article 5.

Is Trump halting aid to Ukraine even legal since it passed Congress budget which included aid to Ukraine? Not that it matters, I just want to know if Trump is yet again breaking the law and nobody is yet again, doing a thing about it, I think there was still a few billion allocated to Ukraine from the last budget pass so it's not Trump halting new aid but already passed aid.

World is about to have a whole load more nukes in it...

Also I feel at this stage, UK and France are the only two countries not in violation of the Budapest Memorandum. The four memoranda were originally signed by four nuclear powers: Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Russia's breaking of it is clear, The United States is maybe not directly violating it (well, the economic coercion is a debatable violation) but UK and France are the only ones sticking to the security assurances they gave to Ukraine in 1994 now, America's word means nothing, even in writing.