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American president angles for top diplomatic award while world watches his summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

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[-] KnitWit@lemmy.world 94 points 17 hours ago

Dude is going to surrender Ukraine and claim to be a peacemaker, while sweetening the deal with a chunk of Alaska.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 21 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

a perfect place for Putin to build a road and put tanks so that Putin and Trump can divide up Canada.

[-] dhork@lemmy.world 12 points 17 hours ago

I don't want it this way, since both Trump and Putin are total goobers, but it would be cool to have a rail and road bridge across the Bering Strait someday.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bering_Strait_crossing

[-] xyzzy@lemmy.today 18 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

If the three major world powers (America, China, and Russia) ever sort out their authoritarian governments, it'd be neat to take a train across the world to Beijing.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

They put trains on boats in Italy

Might be simpler to take it across the Atlantic

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

No, it wouldn't. It would be a vector for Russia to attack America.

The single biggest advantage that the US has had is the built in moats called The Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Putin is not a goober. Putin is an ex-KGB officer.

Putin shadowed Reagan in Reagan's visit..

[-] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 5 points 17 hours ago

Did you not read their first sentence?

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 13 hours ago

100%. Russia likes to control the countries on their borders, to act as a buffer against invasion. Better to defend you country on someone else's soil, and destroy their assets. We use the oceans for the exact same thing.

That is, until he deliberately made enemies of those on our direct borders. Next he will want to control those countries, because he will feel it is very important to controlling the borders.

And all these ideas are coming from Putin. After their meeting, expect HitlerPig to start spouting all sorts of nonsensical concepts that would be terrible for us, but great for Putin.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 16 hours ago

Can you at least give Canada a heads up when you start making it even easier for Trump and Putin to get our country from all sides at once? Thanks.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Share a border crossing with Russia? No thanks.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 6 points 13 hours ago

My prediction is that Putin will offer him Alaska in exchange for Canada, and Trump will grab it, without considering that Alaska isn't his to give away, nor is Canada Putin's.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago

Why are no leaders playing him like a fiddle on this?

Ensure Russia ends the war with the same or less land than it started with and he's a dead cert

Reality doesn't matter to him so just string him along

[-] Aqarius@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Well, Putin seems to be...

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

And demand an award for how much better he is that anyone else at it.

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