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An interesting argument and link, thanks. But I think it stretches things somewhat to accommodate a view. A dictatorship is defined as a government or a social situation where one person makes all the rules and decisions without input from anyone else. Are you saying that FDR ignored or accepted no input from Senate, Congress or SCOTUS over his term of office? Also, while one can always point to the benefits of a very strong government (something the German yeaned for when Hitler appeared as an alternative to the way things were up until then) one can also point to the deleterious effects dictatorships usually have on a people: witness North Korea today.
<blockquote> Roosevelt was a dictator,, he ran his administration <i>no differently</i> [my emphasis] than Hitler or Stalin. </blockquote>
Hmmm. I can think of quite a few differences: the treatment of opponents for instance, with show trials, assassinations etc, or the cruel punishment of whole swathes of the population common to Stalin or Hitler's regimes, for a start. Also, a dictator typically runs his dictatorship as if any chances of political change are unthinkable or to be prevented at all costs. FDR knew that, someday, he would have to relinquish control via the ballot box and accepted that. Finally, FDR was embroiled in a war, and so some special measures and strong central control was essential for things to proceed. It is important not to confuse the emergency requirements of a wartime economy and with 'dictatorship'. I might also add that dictator Stalin's paranoia and his efforts to weed out disaffection and 'plotters' did the Soviet state a huge disservice before WW2 started, wiping out an entire officer class and severely weakening the armed forces, for instance.
It's OK though. He is not acting like a dictator, with dictator friends.
<blockquote>How many veterans from Vietnam are to this day living in poverty in the US, because the military dumped them without proper treatment for their insuries? </blockquote>
How relevant is this to a discussion about Ukraine?
<blockquote>The fact that they haven't sent soldiers to Ukraine </blockquote>
QED
HarlemEagle seems to be making a fact-based argument based on what we have all seen, so no worries there lol. Putin must be rubbing his hands.
<blockquote>First arming far right groups in Ukraine to the teeth until Russia saw a threat </blockquote>
Congratulations. You are the first person I know who actually swallows Putin's reasons for his
naked aggression in expanding the Russian empire.
<blockquote>now that they realize they can't win the war (just like the couldn't win Vietnam or Afghanistan) </blockquote>
You know that the US aren't actually fighting a war, let alone for themselves - right?
If HarlemEagle wants to call Trump a Russian asset, who am I to disagree?
<blockquote>Trump is trying to level the playing field, </blockquote>
By speaking at length to just side in the conflict?
<blockquote>with greedy assholes, </blockquote>
Like those who steal chunks of another country?
<blockquote>we're not acting as the world police</blockquote>
Just the world's real estate broker?
<blockquote> You fucking retards </blockquote>
Oh dear.
<blockquote> British police are constantly told to stand down when it comes to matters involving their new Muslim overlords while no restraint is shown toward indigenous Brits.</blockquote>
Thank you for your unsourced, hyperbolic, but entirely typical opinions.
It is certainly true that corruption has been an issue in Ukraine, one reason why its accession to the EU has been unsuccessful. But I'd rather live there than under Putin's even more corrupt, criminal dictatorship.
<blockquote> think Trump is a bully </blockquote>
'Do what I want or I will hurt your country' sums up a lot of Trump's attitude to foreign affairs. That and isolating Ukraine while alienating or confusing long standing allies.
He may not have been guilty of collusion with Russia as originally charged but, in recent weeks as he cuddles up to Putin and freezes Zelensky out, that claim is increasingly hardly to dismiss.
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