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Essay: Properly qualifying sources (view source)
Revision as of 05:07, May 14, 2025
, 05:07, May 14, 2025→Digression
:Your redundant complaint about "rules for thee and not for me" reveals your [[splitting (psychology)]] regarding [[MSM]] reporting. You think it's all or nothing - regardless of context. You pay absolutely ZERO attention to context in any reporting, in addition to your weakness or inability to qualify a source properly. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Zelensky Must Go!'']]</sup> 00:24, May 14, 2025 (EDT)
:Your redundant complaint about "rules for thee and not for me" reveals your [[splitting (psychology)]] regarding [[MSM]] reporting. You think it's all or nothing - regardless of context. You pay absolutely ZERO attention to context in any reporting, in addition to your weakness or inability to qualify a source properly. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Zelensky Must Go!'']]</sup> 00:24, May 14, 2025 (EDT)
==Mearsheimer calls Trump delusional==
[[Mearsheimer]]: [https://youtu.be/I2vBStJB1Is]
{{Cquote|[Trump]'s dead wrong on both [[World War I]] and [[World War II]]. I won't talk about World War I, but I will talk about World War II where of course he's dead wrong. And also I think he's showing great disrespect to [[Russia]] and to the former [[Soviet Union]] for the enormous price that they paid in defeating the [[Wehrmacht]] in World War II....
[...]
The real danger is it just shows disrespect for other people. Number one, I think if you're in Russia today, which is of course the principal remnant state left over from when the Soviet Union collapsed, this is deeply offensive. Just think about the sacrifice that Russia/the Soviet Union played to defeat [[Nazi Germany]]. And here you have [[President Trump]] disrespecting that great sacrifice, disrespecting this country. But furthermore, when Trump makes comments like that which are so at odds with the historical record, it really cast doubt or doubts on his judgment. It's truly remarkable that he would make such a foolish statement. Someone who is the president of the [[United States]] should simply know better. And I know that we've reached the point where we just say "Well this is Donald Trump, and you know he just says a lot of outrageous things". He contradicts himself from one day to another, and it really doesn't matter because it's just Donald Trump and everybody understands that. But I don't believe that's true. I think it says a lot about his judgment. And I think it says a lot about whether you can [[trust]] the man because he's saying one thing one day and another thing another day. And much of what he says is simply not true. So if you're a foreign leader, and you're looking at the United States and you're thinking about how to deal with Donald Trump, you have to scratch your head and say "Is he a reliable negotiating partner?" And I think the answer in most cases is no.}}
[[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Zelensky Must Go!'']]</sup> 16:24, May 8, 2025 (EDT)
[https://youtu.be/puzGeEWbXx8 Putin]:
{{Cquote|We remember the lessons of the [[Second World War]] and will never agree with the distortion of its events, with attempts to justify executioners and slander the true victors. Our duty is to defend the honor of the fighters and commanders of the [[Red Army]], the great feat of representatives of different nationalities who will forever remain in world history as Russian soldiers. Russia was and will be an indestructible barrier to [[Nazism]], [[Russophobia]] and [[Anti-semitism]], and will fight against the atrocities committed by the proponents of these aggressive destructive ideas. [[Truth]] and [[justice]] are on our side.}}
[https://youtu.be/prGQ-sbFMY4 Judge Napolitani interview with Mearsheimer]:
{{Cquote|'''Judge Napolitano:''' In an interview with ''[[Meet the Press]]'' [Trump] made this rather startling statement that Russia is interested in taking "all of Ukraine", just as [[Biden|President Biden]] did.
'''Mearsheimer:''' Yeah, I saw that clip. And he also says in the clip President Trump, that it's only because of him that they haven't taken all of Ukraine. Uh, I mean this is delusional, on both counts. First of all, there is zero evidence that the Russians have been interested in conquering all of Ukraine. Just zero evidence. They don't have the capability to do that. And furthermore, the idea that they were bent on it and Donald Trump stopped them is kind of a laughable argument. The guy has been in office only since January 20th and he certainly has not stopped them in that.
'''Judge Napolitano:''' What does this tell you about either his understanding of the relationship between Ukraine and Russia or his listening to [[neocon]]s whispering in his ear, or his political chicainery with the rest of us? Maybe he wants us to think that [[Putin]] wants all of Ukraine and when he ends up with just [[Crimea]] and the four oblasts Trump will take credit for having saved the rest of Ukraine. Who knows what's going through his mind. But there is no evidence, whatsoever, from anywhere on the [[planet]] that Putin wants all of Ukraine.
'''Mearsheimer:''' Exactly. And this gets back to his claim the other day that we won both [[World War I]] and [[World War II]]. When you hear those kind of comments, you say "What planet is this guy living on?" This just makes no sense at all.
'''Judge Napolitano:''' How does this play in the [[Kremlin]], Professor Mearsheimer, when he makes a statement like this?
'''Mearsheimer:''' Well, I think that it basically means that you don't know what Trump is really thinking because he changes his tune from day to day. So you really can't trust anything he says. And furthermore, even if you get a deal, let's say we work out a deal. How much faith can you put in him to keep that deal and to not walk away from it at some point? So this is a huge problem for us in terms of dealing with the [[Russian]]s. And, by the way, it's also a huge problem for us in terms of dealing with the [[Iranian]]s. You know, the Iranians remember very well that he walked away from the [[JCPOA]] which they thought was an agreement that was going to be kept by the [[United States]]. But Trump walked away. And if the Russians cut a deal with Trump, and they make concessions to Trump to get that deal, can they trust that he won't welch on the deal shortly thereafter? And the answer is, no. And this really gets in the way of negotiating a settlement.
'''Judge Napolitano:''' So in the past 10 days Trump has claimed that the United States was largely responsible for defeating [[Nazi Germany]] and not the Russians. He has claimed that Russia has lost over a million men in the Ukraine conflict, and he has dispatched [[General Kellogg]], yet again. And I'll play a clip from him just yesterday to offer a [[peace]] plan that he knows is dead in the water. What does this tell the Kremlin?
'''Mearsheimer:''' Again, it tells the Kremlin that his policy is incoherent. That there's just, you know, no clear policy objective. And no strategy for achieving that objective. I mean, what else can the Kremlin conclude? I mean, the Kremlin has a vested interest in playing nice with Trump and not picking a fight with him, and pretending that they're still willing to work out a deal. But I would imagine that behind closed doors the Russians are thinking that we can't place much faith in Trump. And even if we get a deal, we can't place much faith in that deal. What we have to do is we have to position ourselves on the battlefield in ways that ensure our security once the shooting stops and you get a frozen conflict.}}
[https://youtu.be/ATxgqXdVBuQ [REACTION] Trump "Russia wants all of Ukraine" : [[Col Douglas Macgregor]]
[[Dmitry Polyanskiy]]: [[Victory Day]] & [[politics]] of [[historical revisionism]]. [https://youtu.be/E9p5O6UxTxs]
==For the record==
==For the record==