“Mr. Minister,” Austin said, according to Woodward, “I am the leader of the most powerful military in the history of the world. I don’t make threats.”

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    This certainly makes me happy that Biden and not Trump was in office when Putin invaded. Trump would have handed Ukraine over on a platter to daddy Vladdy.

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      That’s the main reason Putin invests all that money into Trump and other far right party campaigns. As long the NATO plays the hunger game against him he and his country will choke on that bite.

      If Trump is in the White House and half of Europe has to fight Nazi scums in their parliaments, Ukraine is down.

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    “That son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy. He’s a bad fucking guy!” Biden declared privately about the Israeli prime minister to one of his associates in the spring of 2024 as Israel’s war in Gaza intensified, Woodward writes.

    Okay, so nut the fuck up and say it in public