Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Ukraine@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 4 days agoWitkoff proposed Trump give Russia ownership of four Ukrainian regionswww.ukrinform.netexternal-linkmessage-square10linkfedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down13
arrow-up167arrow-down1external-linkWitkoff proposed Trump give Russia ownership of four Ukrainian regionswww.ukrinform.netSunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Ukraine@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 4 days agomessage-square10linkfedilink
minus-squareArchangel@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up46arrow-down1·4 days agoThat’s weird. Since when does the US have the authority to just “give” someone else’s land to another country? These people are ridiculous.
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down3·4 days agoWhen you give a country weapons you have leverage over them. Trump did fuck up by basically giving up that leverage first, so now it doesn’t really matter what they say.
minus-squareArchangel@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 days ago“Leverage” doesn’t mean you can just carve up someone else’s country and give parts of it away.
That’s weird. Since when does the US have the authority to just “give” someone else’s land to another country? These people are ridiculous.
When you give a country weapons you have leverage over them. Trump did fuck up by basically giving up that leverage first, so now it doesn’t really matter what they say.
“Leverage” doesn’t mean you can just carve up someone else’s country and give parts of it away.