O/T:- Betting odds for US Election [The USA Politics Thread]

[i961pie]

Ok so to try and stay with the same analogy, if there were people coming to your house and doing the things I described every day and night for 3 years, you could decide to find out where they live and go round there with a truck full of mates to dissuade them. I don't think that's escalation but you do - fair enough.

By your logic though, when the RAF was carrying out bombing raids on Germany to reduce their military capacity during the blitz, the UK was actually escalating the conflict.

During that time there was an isolationist mood in the US (funnily enough with a popular movement called America First too) and they cared as much about the UK getting levelled as some MAGA people care about Ukraine getting levelled now. That didn't lead to less war.

Putin wants to restore the Russian empire and he sees Ukraine and Belarus as a big part of that. He has effectively taken Belarus already by sending thousands of riot police and FSB to prop up the dictator there after he lost an election, and he tried to take Ukraine by force. Any ceasefire will just be an opportunity to replenish his forces and try to make Ukraine a non-viable country before starting round 2 in a few years. Also China will see that if you invade another country, basically you get put on the naughty step for a couple of years but then people get bored and you can keep what you took. I really do think that any alternative here leads to more war in the future.

Excellent post

[Lullapie]

I see that Special Council, Jack Smith, has dropped all charges against Donald Trump with regards to 6th January. What a waste of time and money.

Either Smith didn't have a strong enough case or the whole thing was purely political.

[Mud Pie]

I see that Special Council, Jack Smith, has dropped all charges against Donald Trump with regards to 6th January. What a waste of time and money.

Either Smith didn't have a strong enough case or the whole thing was purely political.

or there's an historical DOJ norm not to prosecute a sitting president? Tomato tomato

[SmiffyPie]

I see that Special Council, Jack Smith, has dropped all charges against Donald Trump with regards to 6th January. What a waste of time and money.

Either Smith didn't have a strong enough case or the whole thing was purely political.

From the articles I have read this course of action has been taken so Trump can face these accussations again after his term in office. Any other course of action would have made that impossible.