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Plenty of Republicans are opposed to the level of support given to Ukraine. The idea of Mike Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Green, and Lauren Boebart feeling enabled by a Trump presidency is worrying, and not only from an international perspective.

This is correct, but facts should have no place in political rhetoric. Producing 155mm shells or rockets for HIMARS keeps people employed in US armaments factories, but Donnie wants to create an alternative narrative. As John Bolton said recently, Trump has no Foreign Policy, he makes it up on the fly - everything is seen in the prism of local issues, generally immigratipn. NATO currently requires members to spend at least 2% of GDP on defence, and most do. ( Mind you, if Luxembourg were to do so, everybody in the country would probably own a tank ).

Turning up three years late for WW3 is probably not an option.

Trump is, in effect, an isolationist who doesn't really give two hoots about most of the rest of the World, especially Europe. In the eyes of the Democrats American interests are wider than simply keeping domestic petrol prices as low as possible. In terms of the Ukraine war, Trump just wants to stop the financial side of supporting the Ukrainians, seeing it as a local dispute and of no consequence to US interests, when the money could be better used to build his border wall and fund tax cuts for his billionaire chums. ( He also has no real antipathy to Putin throwing his weight around in Russia's own 'sphete of influence' ). The Democrats see a threat to Europe that needs to be stood up to, as failure to do so will empower and embolden Putin.

IDF deploy women in combat roles.

Well, they rushed into the 17-18 war and the 41-45 one. I don't think they have ever really forgiven us for burning Washington in 1814.

To paraphrase Bonnie Greer on QT; The USA is a continent between 2 walls, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and is only interested in preserving that situation. They don't care about what happens elsewhere in the World unless it is in their insular interest. Fundamentally it is a country founded by people running away from something, and want to protect their land from everybody else.

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Trade tariffs / non-negotiation of a trans-Atlantic trade deal Increased use of fossil fuels Pulling support from NATO in Europe

Guided Missile doesn't come across as your typical leftie.

Plenty of DPRK meat available.

The US is so polarised that it will probably be not what most people on the Pacific coast and in the northeast would want done.

First one was a Republican, the second is registered as an 'independent'.

Is there anything to prevent Biden being declared unfit and Harris at least being given 2 months to play at being America's first woman President ?

Surely the water in Australia drains uphill.

Trump is older than Biden was when he was elected.

Why is the party of the right red and that of the left blue, when in almost every other national political contest it is the other way round ?

I wonder what female suicide bombers get in the promised land.

Where do we think Trump's promised "retribution and revenge" will fall first ? And it looks like he will be appointing a vaccine conspiracy theorist to a post in healthcare to "make America healthy again".

Putin will see it as money well spent.

As I pointed out earlier, you have made the next step towards intelligence.

Foinavon won the Grand National at 100/1.

Democracy can be a right bitch at times.

If Trump keeps his pledge to 'stop' inflation the promised economic revival will quickly stagnate.

I assume your exile from the forum is over ? Mind you, with luck you will now deliver on your promise to vacate the UK. You will fit in well in a Trumpian utopia.