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- europe@feddit.org
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- europe@feddit.org
U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered a suspension of all military aid to Ukraine, escalating pressure on President Volodymyr Zelensky mere days after a heated exchange in the Oval Office cast doubt on U.S. support for Kyiv.
A senior Defense Department official told Bloomberg that all U.S. military assistance to Ukraine is on hold until Trump determines that Ukrainian leaders are making a genuine effort toward peace.
The pause affects not only future aid but also weapons already in transit, including shipments on aircraft and ships, as well as equipment awaiting transfer in Poland.
Edit: changed source from Bloomberg to Kyiv Independent b/c there’s no paywall and more detail in the story.
Each time I read “Trump orders”, “Trump does X”, I always ask myself: “Wait, can he do that? Congress? House? Judiciary? Cheks? Balances? Hellooooooooooo…?”…
… but this is still the first few months of his second term. At this pace, he will be a literal king in a few more months.
A scary prospect to say the least, and I hope it’s not too late for America to do something about this. This should not be normalized. This cannot be normalized.
The average us citizen doesn’t have a solid grasps of how our government actually works.
Defunding education and gutting curriculum and removing civics education has … been impactful.
This just proves that american gloating over their “checks and balances” was bullshit all along. US will never live this down.
The shitty thing is, the checks and balances kind of still exist but the people in charge of them approve everything Trump is doing.
And then the constituents who are in charge of voting those people out ALSO approve of what they are doing and/or are too ignorant to notice. (Any illegal tampering with voter rolls and ballots notwithstanding)
How does one fix the culture of an entire nation? Ugh.
I’m not an American but considering only 22% or so of population actually voted for trump I’m not sure you’re right that entire US culture is just broken. Maybe the attack is just so effective that even with 80% resistance it’s successful. I mean dudes wrote an entire plan book on in.
Maybe it’s time to come to terms that the system is simply vulnerable. I come from infosec background and it seems quite clear to me that US democracy is just incredibly vulnerable to attacks despite the “checks and balances” memes.
Oh yeah, I think it’s both, to be sure.
Laws only have value as long as someone is willing to enforce them. It’s all a social construct.
I’m not from the US and am far from being a legal expert, but your country appears to be close to being lawless (or is getting there at an accelerated pace).
I mean it’s really not close to lawless, it’s just we’ve decided one man is king and can’t do anything illegal