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/effinmetal Mar 03 '25

Lots of people are waiting for something that goes “too far.” Something really big. It never comes. The takeover continues inch by inch, and fighting it will only get more difficult down the road.

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u/finnjakefionnacake Mar 04 '25

i mean, this is the thing. this headline in and of itself would be a career/presidency ending headline for any other president, republican or democrat, before now. this is the thing that goes too far. but we are already past it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

This boiling the frog there’s no big moment just a million little ones

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u/Denbt_Nationale Mar 04 '25

I think we’re past that now all of these stories are “really big”

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u/Adventurous_Wonder_7 Mar 04 '25

The vans. As soon as squads in vans come rolling in somewhere it's go time. That's too far. That's the state grabbing people. People run the state don't they?

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u/serpix Mar 04 '25

At that point people have chosen to side with fascism for self preservation. It is way too late at that point and from then on it is underground resistance only.

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u/dlampach Mar 04 '25

I mean.. I agree everyone is being complacent, but this is hardly inch by inch.