Zelenskyy Warns Russia has Penetrated US Politics

@#1 ... because people's lives are at stake ...

That simple phrase is, imo, a huge difference between fmr Pres Trump and Pres Zelenskyy.

Pres Zelenskyy cares about people and their future, fmr Pres Trump views people are merely a means to complete a transaction.

Fmr Pres Trump views the ceding of Ukraine land to Pres Putin as a transaction.

He has not a clue about the longer term ramifications of that act because he seems to only know transactions, not strategy.

@#3 ... Trump will blab everything he sees to putin. ...

Is Donald Trump an intelligence threat? (March 2024)
theweek.com

... Here's a paradox: Donald Trump faces trial for mishandling national secrets. But as the GOP's presidential nominee, he will be eligible for regular intelligence briefings by the federal government in the months leading up to November's election. The Biden administration is sticking with that "normally humdrum" tradition, Politico said, even though the briefings are "fraught with unusual risk this year due to the pending court case." Said one former intelligence official: "I'd be afraid about giving him stuff."

It's not just his history of cavalier treatment of classified docs, The Guardian said. Trump's "bromance" with Russian leader Vladimir Putin also raises concerns in the intelligence community. "I think Trump and Putin are natural bedfellows," said Douglas London, a retired CIA operations officer. That is why some Democrats are sounding the alarm. "There is literally nothing about Trump that suggests he would put our country's interests ahead of his own interests under almost any circumstances," said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). ...

I still wonder what happened to the contents of those empty classified folders that were found at Mar-A-Lago.

Trump's Hollow Empty Folders' Defense
www.factcheck.org

... Former President Donald Trump's latest defense for having classified documents found by FBI agents at his Mar-a-Lago home is that many of them were simply "empty folders" stamped "classified" on the outside that Trump kept as mementos. The FBI says it did find dozens of empty folders, but it also found 103 classified documents. ...

It's true that in a court-approved search of Mar-a-Lago on Aug. 8, FBI agents seized several dozen empty folders marked as having once contained "classified" material. According to an inventory of items the FBI seized that day, which the Department of Justice released on Sept. 2, there were 48 "empty" folders marked as having once contained "classified" material, including 43 from Trump's office. The search also turned up 42 empty folders marked as "Return to Staff Secretary/Military Aide," including 28 in Trump's office. ...

So where are the contents of those empty folders?

Or, maybe, a better question might be, to whom were those contents sold, and for what in return?

@#14 .. We instigate a major war ...

Wait, what?

Pres Putin does an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country, and now your current alias says that "we" instigated the war?

Oh wait.

Maybe your comment does make sense, that is, if your current alias is a Russian troll.

Is it?

@#11 ... They're going to slowly end the war and end up making massive territorial concessions. ...

Yeah, that is what Pres Putin is hoping for.

Because it will encourage his further excursions into Europe.

@#18 ... But Z is the last person I would believe. ...

And your current alias says that... why?

@#19 ... See you can imagine Z doing the same thing, no? ...

Do try to be rational.

Who is Z?

If your current alias wants to discuss, then do so.

But all it seem to want to do is disrupt.

Why?

@#21 ... He's like a Chinese Republican House Member. ...

Yeah, but who knows.

One thing I find interesting is how that current alias seems to come to the defense of another current alias that I seemed to have caught in an apparent inadvertent defense of Russia's unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country.

My #16.

I am starting to wonder if we are seeing a Russian-based troll farm here on this most august site?

Sometimes, the handing off of replies almost seems to be like shift-work on a troll farm.