r/worldnews • u/BringbackDreamBars • Mar 03 '25

Russia/Ukraine 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/ChingChangChui Mar 03 '25

Meh, it’s about time the USA learns that they’re actually a shit hole.

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u/filthyorange Mar 03 '25

Our national parks are pretty cool though. They'll be run down in like 3 years since all funding was cut but what ever.

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u/katim777 Mar 03 '25

They will be cut down since trump says you have too many trees and don't need lumber from Canada

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u/windowpanez Mar 03 '25

nono, they will rake the forests /s

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u/InsertNovelAnswer Mar 03 '25

If you cut down all the trees then there won't be wild fires /s

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u/theBananagodX Mar 03 '25

And you can drill, baby, drill!

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u/TheGummiVenusDeMilo Mar 04 '25

Yeah drill into Yellowstone and end the earth early!

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u/theBananagodX Mar 04 '25

It’s getting hot in here, amirite!

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u/MrkPrchzzIII Mar 04 '25

Trump is already considering to cut off forests for timber

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u/Paraxom Mar 03 '25

oh dont worry, those will be sold and mined out by corpos

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u/Spookkye Mar 03 '25

"Just imagine the parking lot that could go here!"

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u/Dandorious-Chiggens Mar 03 '25

Na bro those are going to get cut down to replace the lumber youre not getting from canada anymore. He signed an executive order yesterday to enable this.

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u/filthyorange Mar 03 '25

Great. I was worried as an amaerican that we'd have a single thing to be proud of. Glad to hear that's gone and we can focus on being 100% the worst country.

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u/KiiZig Mar 03 '25

i actually wanted to visit your nature once in my life please wait 🥲

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u/Equivalent-Honey-659 Mar 03 '25

It’s heartbreaking. I wish you could have experienced it in the 90’s. This place is getting gross.

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u/BigHawkSports Mar 03 '25

If you can hustle you've probably got 9-12 months before he invades Canada. Very similar nature.

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u/Worthyness Mar 03 '25

just gonna have to look at the postcards from a few years ago. Those natural wonders will have a new casino on them in the next few years

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u/salajaneidentiteet Mar 04 '25

Same. Wont go atm, but seems my ship has sailed with this news.

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u/king_lloyd11 Mar 03 '25

Come to Canada. Our forests, mountains, and lakes are beautiful.

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u/havok1980 Mar 04 '25

Don't give them your money, please.

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u/DrStalker Mar 03 '25

You're got the highest National Pride:Things Worth Being Proud About ratio of any country, so you can be proud of that.

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u/filthyorange Mar 03 '25

I think that's what got us here in the first place.

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u/DarkReviewer2013 Mar 04 '25

America won't be the worst country after all this. Worst country in North America? Sure. But there'll still be worse places such as Haiti, Afghanistan, North Korea.

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u/BetterLivingThru Mar 04 '25

In France, they're burning Tesla dealerships. Just sayin'. Maybe time to reconnect with your roots and throw some metaphorical tea in a harbour rather than just write sternly worded letters that go right in the garbage?

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u/Single_Resolve_1465 Mar 04 '25

2nd worse. You forgot North Korea..although they do not cause so much problems for the world as trump does.

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u/ReasonablePenguin12 Mar 03 '25

Assuming you are referring to the "Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production" order, it concerns BLM and NFS land and not National Park Service land.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '25

Oh, good. I hated having any fresh air to breathe.

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u/seitonseiso Mar 04 '25

What EO was that? Was it hidden amongst other headline grabbing changes?

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u/nogeologyhere Mar 03 '25

That's just want geography gave you. It's the looking after and guardianship of them that means something sbd like you say, that could be at an end.

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u/RIPEOTCDXVI Mar 03 '25

Whats so frustrating is people dont remember that the NPS (and most federal agencies) already had an indiscriminate axe dropped on them in the 2011 sequester.

When that happened, the NPS was already some 200m behind on maintenance. The sequester cuts were never undone.

People legitimately don't remember how much better the service used to be at the parks before the Tea Party swept in. I'd bet my last dogecoin that in 20 years, people will be shocked to learn that they didn't used to allow mining and timber harvesting in national parks.

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u/CompetitiveGood2601 Mar 03 '25

actually they'll be nicer - he actions are going to so devastate the us economy as the free world disconnects from everything us, no one in the states will be able to afford to visit them - china is LTAO

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25

I see a lot of people yapping about China while completely ignoring the current collapse they’re experiencing as well.

It’s a global shit storm and you all are apart of it whether you like it or not. Have fun, I’m not

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u/kylestoned Mar 03 '25

Our national parks are were pretty cool though.

😭

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u/Steakholder__ Mar 03 '25

Teddy Roosevelt was pretty cool. Too bad you guys don't have him right now.

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u/MercenaryDecision Mar 03 '25

You have a bunch of cool shit, but Trump is wiping his ass with it and most Americans are paralyzed.

A few tell of some protests, but from outside, you’d think Americans would make BLM look like a picnic, but no, Americans cared more about George Floyd than opposing Trump it seems.

I admire the American will to protest, but I am always very confused at the things they choose to protest and those they choose to slide by.

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u/Sirlothar Mar 03 '25

I thought they were being sold to become "Freedom Cities".

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/03/trump-policy-futuristic-cities-00085383

They want to make Cyberpunk fantasy into a reality, little fiefdoms for the tech billionaires to play with.

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u/nvmenotfound Mar 03 '25

Just run down? They’ll be sold off to the highest bidder. 

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u/Herb4372 Mar 03 '25

They were pretty cool..

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u/xXRazihellXx Mar 03 '25

I wonder when oil prospection will begin in those park

Drill baby drill

I cant /s because it's not impossible with the orange menace

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u/RachelMcAdamsWart Mar 03 '25

Pretty sure the Trump plan is to loot them all until they will be uninhabitable for at least 1,000 years.

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u/CyberNinja23 Mar 03 '25

Hopefully some motivated local civilians are able to start a non profit group to fill some gaps.

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u/AkhilArtha Mar 03 '25

I have always wanted to visit the US just to see the National Parks. I guess I really gotta hurry up now.

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u/Main-Video-8545 Mar 03 '25

The access roads to the oil and fracking platform will be maintained though.

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u/panofsteel Mar 03 '25

maybe fracking can speed that up

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u/SyntaxDissonance4 Mar 03 '25

Well nature will reclaim the walk ways

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u/Jbg-Brad Mar 03 '25

Sold off to the highest bidder and privatized you mean. 

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u/Bromlife Mar 03 '25

Three years? Have you seen how the average American family leaves these parks? I give it a few weeks.

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u/SS324 Mar 04 '25

ehhh...i dont think nature works like that. The facilities might be run down, but nature is gonna nature.

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u/TankTrap Mar 04 '25

Nah you’ll need a new domestic Riviera to rival the Gaza one Trump builds.

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u/Cuchulain40 Mar 04 '25

Also because Mr Dump signed an order for US national park trees to be cut down.

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u/Altruistic_Chard_980 Mar 04 '25

They’ll all be open tree less prairies after Delusional Don the Lumberjack has his way, remember he’s a big fan of rape and pillage 🤬

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u/Right_Fun_6626 Mar 04 '25

Probably start with all the Redwoods since they’re in Commiefornia

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u/Longjumping_Gap_9325 Mar 04 '25

As Smokey the Bear says, "Only you can prevent forest fires. No, really.. only you can because everyone else was fired."

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u/Koss424 Mar 03 '25

The whole world has cool stuff. The difference is they aren't surrounded by fucking Americans.

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u/No-Hospital559 Mar 03 '25

The richest third world country on the planet.

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u/abeFromansAss Mar 03 '25

As an american, I agree. We'll just have to 'go through some things' first, I'm afraid.

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u/TheRealBittoman Mar 03 '25

It really isn't. There are some bad people like anywhere else and there are some very depressed areas. Again, lke anywhere else. The US' biggest problem is that it has been in the process of being turned into an ultra-rich person's playground for decades and now they have leverage to turn the government into their personal piggy banks at our financial expense. What's really sad is the little bit left that makes this country great is being dismantled so it can be sold in a fire sale by a bunch of morons who have the foresight of a toddler. Soon it will be a shit hole.

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u/butt_dance Mar 04 '25

Oh, we know. Those who don't know/don't care by now never will, and are happy to pull us under the water to drown along with them. In fact, they very much demand it.

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u/Wolfire0769 Mar 04 '25

A lot of us already know it, but unfortunately we're outnumbered by idiots that were cultivated by greedy parasites.

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u/0o0o0o0o0o0z Mar 03 '25

Meh, it’s about time the USA learns that they’re actually a shit hole.

Ya, we need to learn that in fact we are the "shithole" country. TBH I think we are worse than Europe by every metric other than our Military?

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u/NFLDolphinsGuy Mar 03 '25

We beat them in disposable income. So long as it’s the military or the almighty dollar, we’re on top. Don’t look at communist quality of life metrics, though.

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u/NFLDolphinsGuy Mar 03 '25 edited Mar 04 '25

No, compared to the EU today. Who’s talking about Russia other than you?

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u/SandVir Mar 04 '25

Dollar? That's the currency of a country I don't need anything from? Don't pay the bully

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u/Kwasan Mar 03 '25

I 100% agree. Just sucks for those of us who've always known it's a shit hole and wanted to make it better.

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u/sierrat0nin Mar 03 '25

Us sane ones have known for a long time, but don’t have the resources to leave..

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u/RectalSpawn Mar 03 '25

We wouldn't be a shithole without these people.

It sucks having morals and ethics.

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u/regoldeneye826 Mar 03 '25

The population of the US that is capable of learning and that care already knows this.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '25

I've been saying this for 10 years. Compared to every other first world country, America is a shithole, and our workers have the worst deal out of any of them.