Ukraine�s first lady declines State of the Union invitation

The White House had intended for Olena Zelenska to sit near first lady Jill Biden and Russian opposition figure Yulia Navalnaya, who is viewed with some skepticism in Ukraine.

Olena Zelenska, Ukraine�s first lady, declined an invitation from the White House to attend Thursday�s State of the Union address, forgoing one of Washington�s most dignified events and underscoring the complicated politics facing her war-torn country.

The intent had been to seat first lady Jill Biden near Zelenska and Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died last month in an Arctic prison, according to officials familiar with the planning. The image of both women, each a symbol of resistance to Russian President Vladimir Putin, would offer a powerful backdrop to President Biden�s address to a joint session of Congress.

But Navalnaya�s potential presence caused discomfort for the Ukrainians, said people familiar with Kyiv�s deliberations. Though her late husband is widely hailed as an anticorruption icon who risked his life to oppose Putin, Navalny�s legacy in Ukraine is clouded by past statements that Crimea, which Putin annexed in 2014, belonged to Russia.

Even though Navalny�s views later evolved into support for Ukraine�s internationally recognized 1991 borders, many Ukrainians view him as out of step with Kyiv�s goals.

�While in the West, we have always thought of him as someone who fought bravely and courageously against Putin, in Ukraine, Navalny is seen as in line with a mind-set of Russian nationalism and imperialism,� said Alina Polyakova, president of the Center for European Policy Analysis, a Washington think tank.

�Navalny opposed Russia�s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, of course, but in 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukraine, he very much was in line with a general Russian view that saw Crimea as part of Russia�s historical lands,� Polyakova said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/03/05/state-of-the-union-olena-zelenska-yulia-navalnaya/
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Navalny was a racist, a rashist and an imperialist. It is only Biden and Nikki Haley who support Russian rashists. Ukraine told Biden to fuck you!
Trump is doing the right thing by not supporting this Navalny.

Trump is doing the right thing by not supporting this Navalny.

Of course he does not: the enemies of my friends are my enemies.

Russian forces fired a missile at Odesa while Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was visiting the city.

Direct speech from Mitsotakis: �President Zelensky and his staff showed us and explained the importance of the port and what is being done to restore and strengthen the Ukrainian maritime route and what damage was suffered during the attacks. Already at the very end we heard the sound of sirens and explosions that were very close to us. We didn't have time to go to a protected place, it's a very impressive experience."

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So, Russian Na.zis and terrorists planned to kill the Greek Prime Minister today.

The Russian Federation must be liquidated! russia is a threat to the entire civilized world.

Haley exits race, creating a Biden-Trump rematch.
She didn�t endorse Trump but instead called on him to earn the support of voters who backed her.

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How is she different from Biden? She is also a member of the Republican Party....
Kick her out of the Republican Party!

� Biden will easily win�

4 reasons the latest polls are awful for Biden 

Age and physical/mental capacity

Voters continue to be troubled by Biden�s age and perceived acuity. Forty-five percent of those who responded in the New York Times/Siena poll said that Biden�s age �is such a problem that he is not capable of handling the job of president,� while 26 percent said it �makes him ineffective, but he is still able to handle the job of president well enough.�
In Sunday�s CBS News/YouGov poll, 45 percent said only Trump was physically healthy enough to serve as president, compared to 17 percent who said only Biden was. Nearly three-in-10, 29 percent, said neither. And 43 percent said only Trump would have the mental fitness for another term, compared to Biden�s 26 percent.

The economy

CBS News poll, 49 percent of respondents said today�s economy is in very good or fairly good condition, while 57 percent said the current conditions are very or fairly bad. Despite a pandemic-induced crash during Trump�s final year in office, 65 percent remember the economy under Trump as being very or fairly good, while only 28 percent remember it as being very or fairly bad.

Immigration

A plurality, 45 percent, of those who took the CBS News survey consider the situation a crisis, and half think a second Biden term would mean an increase in the number of migrants coming over the border. Twenty-two percent predicted another Biden presidency would bring a decrease in crossing. Meanwhile, nearly three-quarters (72 percent) think a second Trump would result in a decrease in migrants attempting to cross the southern border � only nine percent think a Trump victory would mean more crossing attempts.

Head-to-head

Trump beat Biden in a head-to-head matchup in all four of the major polls out this weekend.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/03/biden-polling-2024-campaign-00144625

Haley exits race, creating a Biden-Trump rematch.
She didn�t endorse Trump but instead called on him to earn the support of voters who backed her.

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How is she different from Biden? She is also a member of the Republican Party....
Kick her out of the Republican Party!

She is the Republican Party. What you are cheering for is the anti-Ukraine maga party.
Here are snippets from her speech when she announced she was dropping out:

"Standing by our allies in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan is a moral imperative. But it�s also more than that. If we retreat further, there will be more war, not less."

I have always been a conservative Republican and always supported the Republican nominee.

But on this question, as she did on so many others, Margaret Thatcher provided some good advice when she said, quote, �Never just follow the crowd. Always make up your own mind.�

It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. And I hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people. This is now his time for choosing.

Yeah... you don't need any pro-Ukraine authentic conservative Republicans! You need maga hyper-nationalist populists who will offer your country on a silver platter to their ideological twin, putin. 🙄

Germany�s Ukraine policy is incoherent for a reason
The German chancellor is driven by a deep-seated fear of Russia and a desire to be seen as a �peace chancellor.�

https://www.politico.eu/article/germanys-ukraine-policy-is-incoherent-for-a-reason/

I expected nothing less from fellow KGB agent Merkel. The Germans do not understand that Scholz is leading their country to occupation by Russian orcs.

It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him. And I hope he does that. At its best, politics is about bringing people into your cause, not turning them away. And our conservative cause badly needs more people. This is now his time for choosing.[/i]

If this aunt positions herself as a member of the Republican Party, she was obliged to give the votes of her voters to Trump. Now, in fact, she is helping cowardly and deceitful Democrats and, in fact, giving them her votes.
Fuck her out of the Republican Party!

Quote from: Zero Talent on March 07, 2024, 09:55

Yeah... you don't need any pro-Ukraine authentic conservative Republicans!

It's a lie. I wrote about the fact that a member of the Republican Party should give the votes of his voters to another member of the party, and not give votes to the Democrats.

Hmmm... where do you see that she gave votes to Democrats?

She is only asking trump to win the trust of true conservative Republicans who see their party being hijacked by a hyper-nationalist, isolationist, populist, anti-Ukraine faction�an ideological twin of putin.

By the way, your dear leader, the future moron-in-chief, will be soon meeting another ideological anti-Ukraine twin he admires, Orb�n.

Trump to Meet Next Week With Orban, Hungary�s Leader https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/us/politics/trump-viktor-orban-hungary.html

Nice ideological trio: trump-orban-putin!

RIP Ukraine.

Quote from: Zero Talent on March 07, 2024, 10:44

She is only asking trump to win the trust of true conservative Republicans

Poor attempt to justify Nikki Haley's betrayal.

As for Trump's meetings, no one knows what goals he is pursuing and what he will really talk about. Only based on the results of US policy under President Trump will it be possible to draw conclusions. Hungary is a member of the EU and NATO.

The difference between stupid people and wise people is that wise people can acknowledge reality and plan ahead, while stupid people only react to what has happened to them.

With your "let's wait and see" approach, with your tendency to discard all facts contradicting your deep-rooted beliefs, you obviously don't fall into the second category.

It will be too late to react when Putin's tanks roll over Kyiv, with trump's (putin's ideological twin) blessing...