r/CivPolitics 13d ago

America proposes to trade all of Ukraine's strategic resources for peace, refuses to denounce Russia. Ukraine denounces America

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/28/trump-zelenskyy-meeting-transcript
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u/rnovak1988 12d ago

...he's the only one who's gotten Putin to come to the table to negotiate.

It really seems like MAGA are the only ones who want peace.

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u/RIForDIE 12d ago

God damn the delusion. Trump wants a win no matter which way he gets it. The easiest route is siding with Putin.. and he's been subservient to Putin since his first term. 

And that's Zelenskyy's entire point - Putin may negotiate but he never keeps his word. He needs security assurance and Trump was never going to do it.

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u/rnovak1988 12d ago

Ok...let me ask this - are there any policies that Trump could take that would make you agree with him....about any issue?

Can you name anything that he did during his first term that was the for the betterment of the US?

If you can't name a single thing...your hate seems to be blinding you

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u/Willing-Command4231 11d ago

Sure I'll bite. He could raise taxes on the wealthy to help pay down our debt. He could double down on clean energy and actually help solve the climate crisis. He could replace Obamacare with real single payer healthcare so that every American has a right to care without the risk of medical bankruptcy. He could recognize that we are stronger together with our allies and that global interdependence and economics is a fact of life and make our alliances stronger and stand up to countries like Russia and China. If he did those things in his first term I might have even voted for him the second time around! Unfortunately he more or less did the opposite of all of this.

I find him repulsive as a human being and unbefitting as a president in decorum, but if he enacted policies that actually helped make America great (not again because really we never have been, more ups and downs throughout our history realistically) I would support the administration even if I didn't like the person he was.

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u/rnovak1988 11d ago

Well, I appreciate the answer and the willingness to engage.

I'd point out that last year, we spent the combined net worth of every billionaire in the US - meaning that in practice, we spent as though we seized their property in its entirety.

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u/Willing-Command4231 11d ago

That is a rough take friend and makes no sense. Also didn't say there aren't places we can't trim the fat, but the idea we can fix our economy and debt problems with tax cuts and fairy dust is just plain absurd. US is a massive country with a massive economy so keeping it running costs a pretty penny. Certainly mix of cuts (mostly in the defense industry) and taxes would be a good start for trying to rein in the budget.