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Alaskans greet Putin with Ukrainian flags, protest ‘war criminal hanging out here’
(www.politico.eu)
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
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They should be pissed off about Putin too
War criminalS
Trump said he planned to organize a trilateral meeting with the Ukrainian president and Putin soon after the Alaska meeting. The U.S. president said there were “three ideas” for locations — and “by far the easiest” would be staying in Alaska.
Well, by far the easiest way to draw Pz Zelensky out by making him fly the length of Russia and land in a tactically terrible location with lots of Russian soldiers around. His 737 will be shot down the moment he gets close to Russian airspace.
Switzerland is a better idea.
People need to stop thinking that foreign diplomats will be killed. It is not smart, easy or profitable to do so.
...would have been a time for the whole two-birds-one-stone thing.
Sadly, The Good Guy With a Gun is just a gun nut wank fantasy with no basis in reality.
Okay. Walk me through how someone is supposed to get into the military base with a gun. Or shoot a jet out of the sky with a rifle?
The same way they are going to all totally take out the tanks and drones and missiles and surveillance state? So let me check my notes from every time I ask the gun nuts this...
Ah, yes. You are racist if you think the Black Panthers heavy focus on social welfare programs had anything to do with it because it was all just because they had a few gats. And the gun nuts are all going to singlehandedly smash every single camera before building dragons teeth in the streets and anyone who questions that is a coward.
So yup. Real shocker there was no Good Guy With A Gun around.
Also, props for the implicit point that there are no Good Guys in the military.
Good for the Alaskans here.