Trump's pause on Ukraine aid is like the U.S. switching sides in WWII, expert says
Trump's pause on Ukraine aid is like the U.S. switching sides in WWII, expert says
The White House says pausing military assistance is part of its drive toward peace; many warn it will only embolden Putin.
Should be enough for ever citizen of the US to literally drop everything, and go right to the White House to remove him...I honestly don't know what it's going to take for the masses of approx 300 million people, to realize 1 person can't ruin your country and that you all have the power to stop him and change this.
It's easy to say this, and easier to think this, but it's difficult to do it. Let's say, hypothetically, I (or anyone else) literally dropped everything right now and drove to DC. What do you presume we do?
We need organization, and organizing on this scale is difficult. There've been protests, but they didn't really go anywhere. We need a massive amount of people who're willing to lose everything, and someone who's able to organize them. Or one John Wilkes Booth. But right now, we have neither.
We had two time travelers try to save the future before the election. I am not terribly confident the future resistance can muster the resources to send a third.
I think that sometimes the need for organisation is a little overrated. If 50% of Americans were so pissed off by Trump's actions that they all just stopped whatever they were doing and converged on Washington DC just so they could stand as close as possible to the federal Government and stare at them in the face.... I think something would change. You can do all the organisation you want, but sometimes it's the straw that breaks the camel's back that triggers change.
Look at global protest movements and tactics used. Taking over gov. admin buildings, blocking off parts of major cities, taking control of infrastructure nodes. Clear and focused demands (e.g. immediate resignation of Trump and his admin). Continued protests day in and day out. A whole network of protest sites all around the country, not only in the capital.
Mass participation with large parts of the country joining in on weekend peaks and key days (at least 10 million for country with the population of the US, realistically you would need more, as much as 20 million on peaks).
Btw, I am not saying this is easy or they are guaranteed to work, but these things to happen when a broad swath of society gets pissed off and have had enough.
Perhaps that's just not the case in the US with respect to society more broadly. It doesn't help that your opposition is trash, but often protests are not spearheaded by established political parties.
BLM didn't have national organizing and it was the longest protest in American history. What is needed is a spark to convince enough people it's time, and for those people to sustain so the avalanche grows.
I'm not saying it's easy or that organizing isn't important, but we do have a recent sustained protest movement to show that it's possible.
It's not 1 person though. It's all Republicans at all levels of government, the oligarchs and their media arms, the judiciary, the local police, the military, and 77 million of the dumbest mf'ers to ever have lived.
I hate to say it, but along with the lack of organization, there's fear. Somehow he pardoned cop killers, but still has both on his side. A congressman recently said that Republicans pretend to agree with him because the death threats pour in as soon as he mentions a name. People standing and holding signs have barely made the news. What method of protest is big enough to have impact but not likely to get people killed? I'm old - violent protest spirit is there, but I'm not willing to risk my life or my family - how can I expect other people to?
It's not one person. We (Americans) all know dumbasses here in the states that make ignorant statements (like yours) that wear bright red hats.
Haha, Americans aren't gonna do anything. They'll just continue being the good little servants they are. They're allowed their little void inside their telephone to scream into and say things like "I see a man without a suit and a suit without a man", so they can feel better. That little serotonin dump is enough to satisfy them and make them believe they've done something and on it goes. Next atrocity, next buzzword, next serotonin dump and nothing ever changes.
Just wait until he removes all Russian sanctions.
No, that's already happening. Next step is providing military support to Russia.
It’s more like the US switching sides in WWIII. Exactly like, in fact.
Well no they got the war right just used the wrong analogy.
It's like the soviet's shifting allegiance from Nazis to the allies because Germany reneged on a deal to give Russia territory.
ukrainian Jake Gyllenhaal over here loading a shell