The mood in the US in 1915 and 1940 was pretty much the same
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Ukraine is not in NATO and America has stated they will not go to war, I.e. direct combat American troops v Russian troops. I don’t like it, but it is a sensible approach, due to escalation issues with a nuclear superpower (not economic, nuclear) and also Ukraine not being in NATO, so not having the coverage and protection that affords.
With that said, there are sanctions, and America is sending troops to bolster states in the vicinity, and is also sending supplies I believe directly to Ukraine, to aid the war effort. Numerous American companies are also doing their bit, and it is starting to affect daily life for Russians, albeit more in terms of inconvenience, not much suffering yet.
As for what the wider country is interested in, it is not unlike all countries… yes, definitely interested in global affairs, especially when there’s a war going on with Russia involved, and yes… definitely interested in domestic politics too.
The likes of Marjorie Greene is an idiot, who was recently censured by her own party for speaking at a white nationalist rally. There is an ugly underbelly in Republican politics here, partly enabled by Putin’s systematic disinformation campaign in recent years.
Not unlike Brexit and the ongoing political discourse in the UK, in terms of interference and disinformation, and while there are crap politicians here in America - lots of them, the same is of course true everywhere, and in the UK, plenty are balls deep and bought and paid for with Russian money.
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Geography is a factor too. If I lived in Germany, for example, then what is happening in Ukraine feels like more of an imminent threat, given the proximity and energy supply and so on. If I live in America, it doesn’t have the same sense of imminent threat, due to the geography. Obviously if it escalates to a nuclear exchange, the geographical distance becomes irrelevant.
The people who are inclined to vote for him don’t see Putin as their enemy. For that role they have the democrats.
Yes you’ll see criticism of Putin’s invasion (now) but it isn’t a coherent world view, which basically sums up the modern American right. Any position can taken in the moment and it neither ties their hands regarding a future position, nor hangs over them for having been on the wrong side of it in any previous moment.
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Why would such a beautiful image being link to the orange buffoon?
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Because it looks like a tiny penis.
That seems to become a big issue now. I heard that you are at 7,5% now? 
It is and it isnt. It’s a quintessentially US political issue.
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It’s an issue in the sense that the prices have risen and that is hurting lots of working people.
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It isnt THE issue that the mainstream political press cover it as - an approach that launders disingenuous, demonstrably false political attacks as being something serious.
For instance, one the cousins of the conservative theory of “trickle down economics” is the idea that public spending causes inflation…which is defacto bad. Much of the discourse around the bills Biden has been trying to pass focused on this issue, despite the overall theory not being true and economic projections showing that they had long term counter-inflationary effects. Yet the GOP points to existing inflation already baked into the cake because of covid and says no more inflation, and the press report this and put it into the public discourse that the issue is one of inflation.
There are probably 10-15 examples that can be used in the same vein as the above. The inflation is real, but multi factoral. Some of it is good and desired (we had been a historic run of low to no inflation that is almost universally believed to have contributed to the lack of overall economic recovery from 2008). Some of it is if not desired, at least an accepted part of other economic factors that overall are positive (job numbers etc). A lot of it is due to changes in consumer behavior caused by Covid that will not last for ever and will rebalance. Some if it is pure price gouging and ineffective/inadequate regulation, such as in the rental market that has led to a literal doubling of rents in some local neighborhoods here in florida (I don’t mean average price, I mean lease renewals have been presented that require a near doubling of rent for tenants to renew).
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Fuck off that’s beautiful!
When will the Republican party wake up and realise that their leader is insane?
They can’t possibly look at that and believe that he is the right man to lead the country.
Admittedly, Biden is borderline senile, but Trump is on a whole other level of craziness.
Just when the world needs great leadership, we get clowns, narcissists, murderous tyrants, paranoid schizophrenics and incompetents.
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You are expecting shortsighted politicians risk losing their big pay cheques, lavish lifestyles and connections? Where have you been in the past 50+ years (if not 100+)?
I get the sense that the party has moved on somewhat from Trump but not from all of the craziness who are waiting in the wings to become the next leader…
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There are still good politicians out there. Look at how someone like Mitt Romney carries himself as opposed to Trump & Co.
One of the biggest challenges with Trump is the tendency that causes us to rebrand everyone who wasn’t MAGA as some righteous honorable person we look to with googly eyes. Romney was a birther, a Bengahzigater in addition to an carrier of any number of awful ideas put forward by the party that Trump simply picked up. Remember, Trump didnt so much create this party, as much as he simply thrived in the ecosystem they created.
The bar now is that if you can avoid calling Pelosi a cunt on twitter you’re treated as a respectable politician with respectable views, even if you’re a character from the Handmaids Tale who thinks poor people should die.
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Yeah, if you’d have told me that Romney and Cheney would be the hopes for decency a couple of years ago I’d have laughed in your face.
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Yeah, when i posted it, i was thinking there might be something in his background i had forgotten or wasnt aware of. Point hopefully stands that there is someone in the Republican party that is decent even if it isnt Romney although i am less confident than i was when i first posted it 
There may be such a thing as a “decent” politician (in the US or the UK) but if they exist, they are no where near the forefront and in many instances, have been chased away by the herd.
The thing I’m curious about is the vacuum that will be left once it becomes clear that Biden won’t/can’t stand or is unelectable at the next election. Who is there in the Democratic party? I don’t see anyone coming across as an electable candidate. The Republicans on the other hand have an embarrassment or “riches”, ranging across the entire spectrum of complete and utter phycho to not quite phyco yet…
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The Republican party has gone so far to the right that I’m not sure it is possible to be a member of them and not be a cunt.
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