Here's a good even headed Triggernometry video explaining why Trump got angry with Zelensky
I'm so fucking sick of today's media climate. It's not just that we're only exposed to biased news speaking to our base. But today, we're effectively shielded from reality. Unless we make an active effort to see other points of view. And this is harder than ever. Because Youtube and Facebook are invisibly filtering out the stuff you should see, in favour of the stuff you want to see. It's like everyone is delusional at the same time. And we have no way of knowing who's the most delusional. Is it me? Who the fuck knows?!? This is in a time where we have more access to correct information and fact checking than ever before. But how the fuck do you fact check stuff if it's unclear what needs to be fact checked, and what fact checkers are reliable?
I'm sick of both sidsing. If I have no reason to give Putin or Trump the benefit of the doubt, and I don't, then I won't. Oh am I being unfair to some of the most powerful people in the world who don't give a shit about anything other than power? Boohoo, fuck off.
He's not both sidsing. As if it's a competition of whose the most virtuous. He's just explaining what both sides want and their perspective.
At no point is Kisin defending Trump.
Trump thinks the war in Ukraine is an unnecessary cost and wants it ended ASAP, no matter what. He doesn't care about moral implications. He just wants the American government to spend less money. That's, in his mind, what his mission is
Then why was intelligence sharing cut off? Intelligence already obtained doesn't cost any money to pass along. That serves only to weaken Ukraine's position and force a surrender favorable to Russia's side. Also, why does Trump care whether the war continues or not once the US stops sending aid, if cost is the only concern? The war needn't end to minimize cost, and in fact can be a net benefit to our defense contractors who can sell arms to Europe and Ukraine if they can afford them (also increasing government revenue via taxation of wages and profits, protecting jobs, etc.)
On your theory these facts are quite puzzling.
A war is incredibly expensive for everyone. Even those not in the war. Any money (production capacity) in a market diverted away from peaceful production and trade is a loss for everyone. When the Nazis got the brilliant idea to send the Jews to concentation camps and take their money. They brilliantly thought they'd make the German government rich, with all this Jew gold. When the moment a Jew was arrested Germany immediatly lost money. Depite adding that gold to the German coffers. Or rather, wealth. Because that Jew was no longer an active participant in the German economy. It wasn't a brilliant idea. It was dumb. Because Hitler was stupid. Later Idi Amin made the same stupid conclusion when he kicked all the Indians out of Uganda. And now you.
Everyone in the whole world is made more poor because of the war in Ukraine. If there's peace that will, very quickly, financially benefit those who voted for Trump, ni a very direct way.
I suggest you read up on the Broken Window Fallacy
en.wikipedia.org
You need to separate GNP and actual wealth generation. GNP is just a proxy for wealth. It's a handy measurement. But if you stare blindly at the number, you might draw the erroneous conclusion that war makes people rich. Or war production makes us rich. It can make a couple of rare individuals slightly better off. But war is almost entirely a destructive, for everyone. It can be justified for lots of different reasons. Very few of them are financial. And in today's modern interconnected market, war is universally bad news for the economy. For everyone's economy.
I think Trump thinks that Ukraine can't win this war. I think Trump thinks that all supporting Ukraine will do is prolong the inevitable. If Russia is going to win, sooner or later, it might as well be sooner. That'll be helped by cutting off intel. I think that's how Trump is reasoning. And just to make this super clear... I don't agree with Trump. I think he's wrong. But explaining why Trump is doing what he's doing, is not the same thing as defending Trump
