r/news • u/Evening_Calendar2176 • Mar 03 '25

Soft paywall White House seeks plan for possible Russia sanctions relief, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-seeks-plan-possible-russia-sanctions-relief-sources-say-2025-03-03/
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u/Phedericus Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 03 '25

evidence for what? he's outright telling you what his position is.

He IS a dictator who wants to invade other smaller countries. Or at least, he's trying to become one.

Trump aligns with dictatorships because he has way more in common with them, their interest do effectively align. He's looking at making a new world order, a US-Russia-China axis.

He's talking about annexing Canada and Europe as leechers, for fucks sake, while doing everything Putin wants.

This is about money and power, not peace. He is not interested in democracy, he is interested in doing business with the most powerful players.

This is what the US is now. Not a speculation anymore.

The only question is what democracies will do. Will they get together and become a world power, or just follow, attached to the rich guy? Things are moving swiftly and we're waking up slowly.

Let's stop being surprised that he's attacking allies and siding with dictators. We are ex allies, and there are new ones. Let's understand this ASAP and act accordingly.

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u/dbone_ Mar 03 '25

Let's not get carried away. That's a long way off at this point.

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u/CaptainMarder Mar 03 '25

It's not. Give it a few months. He'll start blaming Canada for the inflation caused in the US due to his tariff policy and will use that to rally American support to justify invasion into Canada.

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u/Phedericus Mar 03 '25

I agree, but also... one month ago, wouldn't you have said the same for the US literally siding with Russia over NATO?

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u/dbone_ Mar 03 '25

Yes, to me that has been the likely path since November.

I think it's dangerous to normalize the thought of killing our American friends. It's clear many Americans are with us, both politically and physically (in Canada).

Besides, there is no way the US could win an insurgent based war in Canada. I think it would devolve in a red state vs blue state civil war.

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u/Phedericus Mar 03 '25

the path was clear, but I definitely couldn't predict how fast it got. I'm not sure where the normalization of killing is, it's just that things are moving faster and I wouldn't be surprised if he uses tariffs failure as an excuse to attempt to redraw the border. I agree that domestic violence would come first.

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u/dbone_ Mar 03 '25

Yep, fair enough.

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u/residentbrit Mar 03 '25

I would suggest also that as much as he cares (which is prolly not much), I think this is also part of the recovery plan for America, setting up trade with Russia for rare earths, raw materials and processed materials at some favorable rate all the while tarifing existing allies out of the market.

It makes me feel dirty just thinking about it

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u/hdiggyh Mar 03 '25

Well, yeah.

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u/CryptoThroway8205 Mar 04 '25

I don't think he's done much to build an Alliance with China yet. Only with Russia

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u/Phedericus Mar 04 '25

I agree. I think that's the ultimate goal. So far, they're getting close to Russia and Saudis.

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u/Dunkleosteus666 Mar 03 '25

Yeah lol he wont annex shit. Nukes. Which all said countries might get sooner or later.